China urged India and Pakistan on Monday to “exercise restriction” as the two countries exchanged fire in the control line (LOC) for the fourth consecutive night following a deadly attack on the occupied pahalgama of Kashmir.
The April 22 attack killed 26 people, mostly tourists, and was one of the most mortal armed attacks in the Himalayas region in dispute since 2000. The resistance of Kashmir, also known as the front of the resistance, said that “unequivocally” denied participation in the attack, after an initial message that was responsible.
India, without offering any evidence, has involved the cross -border links of the attackers, while Pakistan has strongly denied any participation. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has requested a neutral investigation into the incident.
“China expects the two parties to exercise restriction, they meet halfway, properly manage relevant differences through dialogue and consultation and jointly maintain regional peace and stability,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun.
“China welcomes all measures that will help cool the situation,” Jiakun told a regular press conference.
The statement occurred after Pakistan and India, according to the reports, exchanged shots for the fourth consecutive night in the LOC, after four years of relative calm.
“During the night of April 27 to 28 … Pakistan’s army stalls began fire of small weapons not caused in the control line,” said the Indian army in a statement.
There were no reports reported, and Islamabad did not immediately confirm the shots.
India’s defense forces have carried out several military exercises throughout the country since the attack. Some of these are routine preparation exercises, Reuters He cited a defense official as he said.
Since the incident, nations with nuclear weapons have unleashed a series of measures from each other.
India on April 23, unilaterally suspended the Critical Water Treaty of the Indo (IWT), a water exchange agreement that was negotiated by the World Bank and has suffered through wars and decades of hostility.
The next day, Pakistan retaliates threatening to put the Simla agreement abandoned and close his airspace for Indian flights. The National Security Committee (NSC) in Islamabad also asked India to “refrain from its reflexive guilt game and the cynical and administrated incident exploitation such as Pahalgam to promote its close political agenda.”
On Thursday, the Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to chase the attackers to the “ends of the earth” and said that those who planned and carried out the attack “will be punished beyond their imagination.”
The calls have also grown from Indian politicians and others by military action against Pakistan.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Friday that Pakistan was “ready to cooperate” in an international investigation into the attack of the Pahalgama, but also warned about a “total war” if India carried out some attack against Pakistan.
The United Nations have urged arch
UU. In contact with India and Pakistan, it urges work towards the ‘responsible solution’
China’s restriction call joined the United States statement since Sunday, urging India and Pakistan to work towards what he called a “responsible solution”, since Washington said he was in contact with both countries.
“This is an evolving situation and we are closely monitoring developments. We have been in contact with the governments of India and Pakistan at multiple levels,” said a spokesman for the United States Department of State. Reuters In a statement sent by email.
“The United States encourages all parties to work together for a responsible resolution,” added the spokesman.
The state department spokesman also said that Washington “meets India and firmly condemns the terrorist attack in Pahalgam”, reiterating comments similar to The recent made by US President Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance.
In public, the United States government has expressed its support for India after the attack, but has not criticized Pakistan. While Saudi Arabia and Iran offered to mediate, Trump said last week that he was confident that India and Pakistan “solve it.”
India is an increasingly important American couple, since Washington aims to counteract the growing influence of China in Asia, while Pakistan remains an ally of the United States, even when its importance for Washington has decreased after the withdrawal of the United States of 2021 from Afghanistan neighbor.
Michael Kugelman, an analyst and writer of the South Asia based in Washington for the Foreign policy The magazine said that India is now an American partner much closer than Pakistan.
“This can worry about Islamabad that if India makes militarily retaliation, the United States can sympathize with its anti -terrorist imperatives and not try to get the way,” Kugelman told Reuters.
Kugelman also said that, given the participation of Washington and the continuous diplomatic efforts in the Russian War in Ukraine and Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the Trump administration is “dealing with much on its global plaque” and can leave India and Pakistan on their account, at least in the first days of the tensions.
Hussain Haqqani, former Pakistan ambassador to the United States and the main member of the Hudson Institute experts, also said there was no appetite from the United States to calm the situation at this time.
“India has a long data complaint about terrorism that emanates or relies from everything [the] edge. Pakistan has a long belief that India wants to dismember it. Both work in a frenzy every few years. This time, there is no interest in the United States to calm things, ”said Haqqani.
Ned Price, a former official of the US Department of State Uu. Under the administration of former President Joe Biden, he said that while the Trump administration was giving this problem the sensitivity he deserved, an perception that he would support India at any cost can further increase tensions.
“The Trump administration has made it clear that it wishes to deepen the American association of India, a laudable objective, but that is willing to do it at almost any cost.
“If India feels that the Trump administration will support it regardless of what, we could be reserved for greater escalation and more violence among these neighbors with nuclear weapons,” added Price.
Hundreds arrested as the Indian forces continue with repression
Meanwhile, the security forces have arrested about 500 people to interrogate it after searching for almost 1,000 houses and forests hunting the attackers in the back controlled by India, said a local police officer. Reuters Mondays.
At least nine houses have been demolished so far, added the official.
Previously, the Kashmir Media Service He had put the number of arrests in more than 2,000. He informed that the ancestral houses of seven assume had been destroyed using explosives by the Indian forces in what critics described as “collective punishment.”
Political leaders in the State have requested caution to ensure that innocent are not harmed in government actions against terrorism.
“It’s time to … avoiding any action outside of the people. He said in x On Saturday.
Another former main minister made an appeal before the Indian government “to be careful that innocent people do not feel to feel the worst part of the alienation help the objectives of the division and the fear of the terrorists of alienation.”
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