The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, said on Friday that Pakistan had not asked anyone to make India sit down to talk about any kind.
“Pakistan did not ask anyone to organize conversations with India. Pakistan is ready for integral conversations with India, even on the subject of Kashmir,” Parliament House told journalists.
Speaking about the May conflict between the two countries and the high later fire, he said that the latter was still underway.
The military confrontation between India and Pakistan arrived in May when the first, without evidence, linked Pahalgam’s attack with Islamabad, who strongly denied the accusations. On the night of May 6 to 7, New Delhi launched a series of air attacks in Pakistan, killing at least 40 civilians. Both parties exchanged missiles, which extended during the week, before a high negotiated fire in the United States would have agreed to stop hostilities.
Speaking about the high in hostilities, he said: “India had asked the United States to stop fire. I received a call from the United States for a high fire. I had made it clear that Pakistan did not want war.”
The Foreign Minister said he had suggested to Pakistan to sit in a neutral place for conversations, to which he had expressed his willingness to do so.
“He had made it clear that there will be no discussion about any single -point agenda with India. We will discuss all pending problems, including the problem of Kashmir with India,” he said, adding that “unnecessary rhetoric” continued flowing from India in the meantime.
He also said that a visit from the Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio to Pakistan was not yet scheduled.
Pakistan ready for dialogue with India: Fo spokesman
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan, said Pakistan is ready for dialogue composed of India, reiterating comments made previously by FM Dar.
Filitying questions from journalists during a weekly press news session, the spokesman said that Pakistan is ready for the “composite dialogue” with India in all matters, not just the issue of terrorism.
“India says they would only talk about terrorism; however, we want to talk about all matters, including terrorism,” Khan said. “We have complete and detailed evidence on the acts of terrorism of India against Pakistan, but this would be an element during the composite dialogue.”
Khan added that Islamabad would welcome the attempts of other countries, including the United States, to take Pakistan and India to the table to talk. However, answering a question, he said that there is no meeting in the works among the prime ministers of both countries.
Answering another question about Indian military accumulation, Khan described him as an “alarming trend” and a threat to regional stability.
“He becomes more sinister when you look at his declaration policy and national developments in India, who are so hostile towards Pakistan, and more and more Islamophobic,” the spokesman described.
“We have been raising this problem with our partners. The international community turns a blind eye to the madness of India to develop its military capacities is a very dangerous tendency.”
However, he assured that Pakistan remains ready and has the ability to respond to any threat or action by India.
TAARAR Praise the role of the media during the conflict with India
Separately, the information minister, Attaullah Tarar, praised the media for his role in counteracting the Indian narratives during the military confrontation and praised him for delivering the country’s message to the world to a much larger media apparatus in India.
When heading to a meeting of the Council of Pakistan newspapers (CPNE) in Islamabad, Tantar labeled that period as “extraordinary circumstances.”
“Just from the beginning, it was a war of narratives,” he said. “The enemy had more resources, international interest, lobbying and public relations companies. International media had employees of Indian origin due to their largest population.”
The minister declared that Pakistan’s strength was not in numbers or resources, but in “having the truth.”
“The truth cannot hide or be counteracted,” Tarar said. “While the prime minister requested an investigation into the attack of the pahalgama in Kakul, India was leveling the accusations without evidence.”
Tantar then described a “synergy” between the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Information during the war, noting that the “Vanguard Data Center of the Ministry may be done for this purpose so that we could fight against a war of narratives.”
He thanked the general director of Public Relations between services “for this synergy.”
“This war was freed by all together, with its help and content. The way in which things were written and spread was a team effort,” he said.
Tarar said that due to the coverage of the media during the fighting, Pakistan experienced a resurgence in the international stage.
“Worldwide, people have greater respect for Pakistan and take us seriously,” he said.
“There was this false glorification of the ‘Ascent of India’, how this great economy was and the increase in power in southern Asia. That same modi has to give false medals in countries whose names we have never heard about.
“Because much objective information that we were spreading, they (India) were spreading so many lies,” he added.
“His media have been terribly exposed, while our media became part of our diplomatic effort and spokesmen for our foreign policy. They took each step for our defense.”
When affirming that Pakistan’s Navy was ready for any Indian commitment, the minister joked that “when the enemy discovered that they could not destroy the port of Karachi, they destroyed ports in fine and Lahore.”
“An Indian channel said that the Indian media are a spokesman for foreign policy and that the Pakistani media are drifting. I would like to tell that person who should be ashamed of lies and propaganda and how they are mocking globally,” Tarar said.
“The whole country played a role in this effort, like the CPNE, which will be remembered with love for its role as a body in times of war,” he said, emphasizing the need to recognize the “War Cabinet” of the CPNE and how the council “played a role in the construction of narratives and defeating the enemy during this war.”
