Pakistan delegate to the United Nations, Ambassador Asim Afzar Ahmed, said that his country will respond to India “in the right place and time”, but at the same time, Islamabad’s openness to dialogue and calm with New Delhi.
Pakistan delegate to the United Nations stressed – in an intervention with Al -Jazeera – that his country retains the “right to respond” to the attacks of India, which he described as “unjustified” and is a blatant violation of international covenants and international law.
On Wednesday, the Pakistani government delegated the army on Wednesday to the Indian attack, and at the same time did not rule out the outbreak of a nuclear war.
Ambassador Ahmed denounced the accusations of New Delhi against Islamabad, and considered them to come in the context of previous Indian behaviors and facts, and attributed what India had taken against Pakistan to “narrow political reasons.”
As for diplomatic endeavors, he pointed out that his country had received great support from the international family to open an investigation into the last Kashmir attack, at a time when he stressed that New Delhi avoided dialogue with his country for years.
The Pakistani delegate stressed that his country “does not want more escalation with India, as the Pakistani people love peace,” expressing the openness of his country to any kind of dialogue or mediation to calm with New Delhi.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Pakistani army announced the death of at least 26 civilians and the injury of 46 Indian army strikes on “6 sites” in Pakistan and in the exchange of fire between the two armies in the Kashmir region.
In turn, Reuters quoted an Indian official as saying that “10 people were killed and 48 wounded in a Pakistani bombing targeting the Indian part of Kashmir,” Reuters quoted an Indian official as saying.
The mutual shelling between the two countries of the two countries continues through the ceasefire line in Kashmir, after India bombed 9 sites on Wednesday night inside Pakistan that it said was “infrastructure belonging to terrorists” responsible for an armed attack in the Indian part of Kashmir on April 22.
For its part, Pakistan denied the accusations of India and restricted the number of Indian diplomatic employees in Islamabad, and announced that it would prepare any interference in the rivers outside the Sindh River Water Treaty “a war work”, suspended all trade with India, and closed its air field in front of it.
