Mathew 22:39. “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as yourself”. Except that both India and Pakistan are not largely Christian and therefore not bound by the second Commandment of the Bible. Their own respective denominations though are replete with the same sentiment about the ‘rights of the neighbour’, but for the moment only frenzy drives them. Imagine, as India and its political leadership sounded the war-drums over Uri, they stood the farthest from any such possibility…
Posts published in “Day: October 3, 2016”
Once again an Indian government with no concern for consequences has escalated the ongoing conflict with Pakistan – this time without direct provocation, using deadly force and in direct violation of several international and bilateral treaties. India claims it launched a “surgical strike” inside Pakistani territory against alleged militant launch pads, killing dozens.The Pakistani army claims that no such incursion took place, instead India initiated shelling and small arms fire across the Line of Control…
Pakistan acted with sobriety and responsibility while responding to the latest Indian provocation. The ISPR contradicted the Indian claim of conducting a surgical strike last night across the LoC. It maintained that India had only indulged in cross border firing apparently to appease its hardliners. The firing killed two army men and wounded nine on this side of the LoC. Defence Minister Khwaja Asif warned that if India tried to resort to an action of…
The managed instability that characterises the relationship between India and Pakistan is unraveling at what can only be described as an alarming rate. Unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) on the morning of 29th September killed two Pakistani soldiers and has been described by India as a ‘surgical strike’. This was quickly refuted by Pakistan but the incident adds to a growing list of escalating tensions. India has now pulled out of the…
Trying to live up to its pre-election promise of not going ‘soft’ on Pakistan, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government in its attempt at giving Pakistan a supposedly ‘befitting reply’ for its alleged role in the militant attack in Uri ordered firing across the Line of Control (LoC) and termed it a ‘surgical strike’. It is all too clear that India is wary of a military confrontation with Pakistan, and such acts by the Indian…
Every new day brings another fresh attempt by India to ramp up its campaign against Pakistan and fool the world and its own people. After the Uri attacks, India fired verbal volleys in holding us responsible without a shred of evidence. It then pulled out of next month’s Saarc summit and issued threats to disregard its treaty obligations by withdrawing from the Indus Waters Treaty. For six hours early on Thursday morning it launched military…
BEIJING: China cautioned both India and Pakistan on Thursday and urged both countries to curb rising tensions by resolving issues through mutual consultations. According to details, the spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Minister said that China was fully aware of rising tensions between India and Pakistan. The spokesperson expressed his concern at the escalating tensions between both nuclear-armed neighbours and was also alarmed at the situation in occupied Kashmir. He also said that the Kashmir…
WASHINGTON: The US National Security Adviser spoke with her Indian counterpart on Thursday and maintained that the administration expected Pakistan to combat and delegitimatise UN designated terrorist entities. “Ambassador Rice reiterated our expectation that Pakistan takes effective action to combat and delegitimise United Nations-designated terrorist individuals and entities, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, and their affiliates, “US National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price told media. Rice spoke to Indian official Ajit Doval to condemn the September 18…
The White House on Thursday urged India and Pakistan to avoid escalation in their dispute over Kashmir. White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said reports from the region indicated the Indian and Pakistani militarises had been in communication with one another “and we encourage continued discussions … to avoid escalation”. He said President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, had spoken to her Indian counterpart on Wednesday and made clear Washington is “concerned by the…
WASHINGTON: The United States reminded India and Pakistan on Thursday that nuclear capable states do not threaten to use atomic weapons in any conflict. The US government also categorically said that it considered the Sept 18 attack on an Indian military facility in Uri a terrorist attack. The warning to avoid a nuclear conflict followed reports in the international media that both Indian and Pakistani governments had intensified their rhetoric and hinted at the possibility…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate of Pakistan has assumed its role of providing policy guidelines to the government for adopting a robust strategy in the latest situation developing between India and Pakistan. An in-camera meeting of the Committee of the House was held today in the Parliament House under the Chairmanship of Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, Chairman Senate of Pakistan to seek a briefing from the government on the rapidly deteriorating relations between India and Pakistan. Previously,…