Kakul (TDI): Addressing a passing-out parade at Pakistan’s Military Academy in Kakul, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan is open to cooperating and participating in any independent, neutral, and transparent investigation into who carried out the Pahalgam attack.
The attack that took place in Indian Occupied Kashmir on April 22, claiming 26 lives including majority tourists, has brought India and Pakistan on a war brink and fears of escalation loom high.
Indian blamed Pakistan for the attack, which Pakistan out rightly denied; condemning the attack. However, these developments follow a pattern and similar streak of events has happened in the past as well.
Uri attack in 2016 and Pulwama in 2019, both in Jammu & Kashmir’s occupied territory, saw similar situation, creating a war frenzy.
The J&K region, that India now portrays as normal and peaceful, is far from peaceful. The unilateral change in the autonomous status of the region in 2019 has seen a wave of resistance from local Kashmiris since.
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India completely denies the existence of a grass-roots resistance and without credible evidence, links attacks in the region to Pakistan.
Till date, no independent investigation into any attack has been carried out. Pakistan categorically states that such attacks are false flags which India wants to use to its advantage; creating legitimacy for more violence over native Kashmiris.
Yesterday, during the weekly press briefing, the Spokesperson of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan, said that no third country is yet involved in mediating a de-escalation between Pakistan and India.
He also said that all options are on the table and Pakistan is fully prepared to act in the face of aggression, as the situation evolves every minute.
Nuzhat Rana is the Managing Editor (website) at The Diplomatic Insight.
