Slamming for whipping up war hysteria, India terms Pakistan’s statement as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘preposterous’

NewsBharati    08-Apr-2019
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New Delhi, April 8: Refuting and slamming Pakistan Foreign Minister for his irresponsible statement that India will attack Pakistan again; India termed it as irresponsible and preposterous. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said, remarks of Pakistan is aimed at whipping up war hysteria in the region. It described Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Qureshi’s statement about another imminent attack on Pakistan by this month-end as a “public gimmick” that appears to be a call to terrorists based on its soil to undertake a cross-border terror attack.

 

The Ministry of External Affairs saw the “hysterical statements” as an attempt to confuse the core issue of cross-border terrorism and advised Pakistan to use the established diplomatic and DGMO channels to share any actionable and credible intelligence it has about imminent terror attacks.

An hour before the Indian Foreign Office responded, Qureshi said India had announced “new military action” against Pakistan which, he said, was based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that he had granted a free hand to the security forces to deal with Pakistan.

In an attempt to internationalise the bilateral dispute, the Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmima Janjua held an emergency briefing of P-5 envoys (the US, the UK, France, Russia and China) on Friday where she wanted the international community to “take notice of this irresponsible behaviour and restrain India from embarking on this path”.

India has upped the ante after two major attacks with cross-border linkages on its security forces in Uri and Pulwama, respectively, with counter-reprisals by its conventional forces. Nearly two months after the IAF strikes at a terror camp in Pakistan’s Balakot, Pakistan has imposed severe restrictions in its skies amidst a general hysteria in its top political circles about another Indian punitive military mission.

In case Pakistan-based terrorists were incubating another attack, India has asked Islamabad to use the established diplomatic and military channels to provide an advance warning. Any attack with cross-border signatures will give India the right to respond “firmly and decisively”, warned the MEA.

“No attempt at creating an alibi for its complicity in such attacks will succeed. Pakistan needs to take credible and irreversible steps against terrorism operating from all territories under its control rather than making hysterical statements,” said the Ministry while rejecting the “irresponsible and preposterous statement by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region”.