Washington (TDI): The United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with the Army Chief of Pakistan, General Asim Munir, and urged to find ways to de-escalate the situation.
Marco Rubio also offered the assistance of the United States in initiating constructive dialogue between India and Pakistan to avoid any future conflicts.
The statement was issued by the US Department of State, according to which, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir earlier today. He continued to urge both parties to find ways to deescalate and offered U.S. assistance in starting constructive talks to avoid future conflicts.”
At 3:30 am on Saturday, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lt. General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, informed the public that India had attacked Pakistan Air Force’s bases of Nur Khan (Chaklala, Rawalpindi), Murid (Chakwal) and Rafiqui (Shorkot in Jhang district).
He further added that all assets of the Air Force are safe and no casualties took place
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He also stated that the majority of the missiles that India fired at the military installations were intercepted and neutralized by the Pakistani armed forces.
During the press conference, he also stated that India was “pushing the whole region towards a dangerous war with its madness, aggression, and deceit”. India had also fired missiles at Afghanistan and used its drones to conduct these attacks, said DG ISPR.
Responding to Indian atrocities, on the morning of Saturday, Pakistan started a retaliatory military operation Bunyan ul Marsoos.
According to Pakistan’s national television, PTV News, in India’s Beas region, the Pakistani military destroyed a storage site of the Brahmos missiles as part of its retaliatory operation.
It further added that an airfield in Pathankot and an air base in Udhampur were also destroyed by Pakistani missiles.
Earlier, a day before, the Vice President of the United States commented that the conflict between Pakistan and India is “none of our business.”
“We can’t control these countries though, fundamentally, India has its gripes with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India. What we can do is encourage these folks to deescalate a little bit, but we’re not going to get involved in the middle of a war that’s fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America’s ability to control it,” he said.
The comments of JD Vance came after the US President, Donald Trump, had offered his help to mend relations between the two countries.
Javaria Khalid is a writer and researcher, who specializes in Pakistan's Foreign Policy Analysis, Europe's Security, and Pakistan’s relations with the European countries and the EU. She can be reached at javariakhalid011@outlook.com
