ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to carry out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident, the information minister said in a statement on Tuesday night.
The statement vehemently rejected India’s self-assumed hubristic role of judge, jury and executioner in the region as reckless. Pakistan has been the victim of terrorism itself and truly understands the pain of this scourge.
“We have always condemned it in all its forms and manifestations anywhere in the world,” said the statement. “Being a responsible state, Pakistan open-heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth,” it added.
Unfortunately, the statement continued, rather than pursuing the path to reason, India apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which would have catastrophic consequences for the entire region and beyond.
“Evasion of credible investigations is in itself sufficient evidence, exposing India’s real motives. Consciously making strategic decisions hostage to public sentiments, purposefully trumped up for securing political objectives, is unfortunate and deplorable.”
The statement said that the nation reiterated its resolve to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan at all cost, and warned that any military adventurism by India would be responded “assuredly and decisively”.
The statement further stated that the International community must remain alive to the reality that the onus of escalatory spiral and its ensuing consequences would squarely lie with India.
