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Pakistan warns India of penalties if navy motion is taken.
Islamabad warned of “catastrophic” penalties within the area and past.
Pakistan affords a impartial investigation into Pahalgam terror assault claims.
Citing “credible intelligence”, Pakistan mentioned India is planning navy motion in opposition to Islamabad within the subsequent 24-36 hours. It additional warned New Delhi of “catastrophic” penalties within the full area and past within the occasion of such motion.
Pakistan’s Data Minister Attaullah Tarar mentioned Indian forces had been getting ready to launch an assault on the premise of “baseless and concocted allegations” relating to the nation’s involvement within the Pahalgam terror assault, which killed 26 individuals.
Tarar mentioned India is enjoying “decide, jury and executioner”, a task it it rejects. “Being a accountable state, Pakistan open heartedly supplied a reputable, clear and unbiased investigation by a impartial fee of consultants to establish the reality,” he mentioned, including that Islamabad has been a sufferer of terrorism itself.
Reiterating Pakistan’s resolve to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, urging the worldwide group to “stay alive to the truth that the onus of escalatory spiral and its ensuing penalties shall squarely lie with India”.
The assertion got here hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed the highest defence brass that the armed forces have “full operational freedom” to determine on the mode, targets and timing of India’s response to the Pahalgam terror assault, authorities sources informed PTI. Earlier, he had mentioned that India will “determine, monitor, and punish” the terrorists behind the lethal assault at Jammu and Kashmir’s scenic Baisaran meadow and pursue the killers to the “ends of the earth”.
Tensions throughout the border mounted after a raft of measures taken by India in response to the Pahalgam terror assault. India expelled Pakistani navy attaches, suspended the Indus Water Treaty of 1960, revoked all visas issued to Pakistani nationals from April 27 and instantly shut down of the Attari land-transit put up.
Ceasefire violations alongside the Line Of Management continued for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, as India responded to unprovoked firing from the Pakistan posts.