Defense Minister Khawaj New York Times report.
The April 22 attack in Pahalgam saw 26 people, mostly tourists, killed in what is described as the most fatal armed attack in the disputed Himalayas region since 2000. The responsibility was allegedly claimed by the Resistance Front until now unknown (TRF).
From the incident, nations with nuclear weapons have unleashed a series of measures with each other, with India unilaterally suspending the critical Treaty of the Indo Aguas (IWT) and Pakistan taking reprisals by putting the Simla agreement in suspense and closing its airspace for Indian flights.
India has involved the cross -border links of the attackers, while Pakistan strongly denied any participation.
Asif told NYT In an interview on Friday that Pakistan was “ready to cooperate” with “any investigation by international inspectors.”
The minister said India had used the sequelae of the militant attack as a pretext to suspend the IWT and for internal political purposes. India was taking measures to punish Pakistan “without any evidence, without any investigation,” he added.
“We do not want this war to establish, because climbing this war can cause a disaster for this region,” Asif told the publication.
Asif refuted India’s accusations by stating that the Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let) outlined organization was “missing” and had no capacity to plan or perform Pakistan attacks.
“They have no configuration in Pakistan,” he told to NYT.
“Those people, whatever they are of them, are contained. Some of them are under house arrest, some of them are in custody. They are not at all assets,” said the minister.
According NYTAsif said the attack could have been a “false flag” operation carried out by the Indian government to cause a crisis.
The Minister of Defense said that during the last decade, India had been trying to get out of the treaty, which has been a source of stability in the region.
“They were creating excuses. They were creating problems that were not there,” he said. “Now they have found an excuse to get out of this agreement.”
In a separate interview with Sky NewsAsif had warned of a “total war” if India carried out an attack against Pakistan.
“If there is a total attack or something, obviously there will be a total war,” said Asif, adding that the world should be “worried” about the perspective of a large -scale military conflict in the region.
Fire exchange in LOC for the second day
Meanwhile, there were reports from Indian and Pakistani troops that exchanged shots for a second consecutive day on Saturday through the (LOC) control line while the ties collapsed after the pahalgama attack.
Yesterday, Syed Ashfaq Gilani, a government official in Azad Cashmir AFP that the troops exchanged fire along the line that separated the two countries. “There were no shots to the civilian population,” he added.
There were no immediate comments from the Pakistani army. The Army of India confirmed that there had been a limited shot of small weapons.
According ReutersThe Indian army said today that his troops responded to the fire of small “not caused” small weapons of multiple positions of the Pakistan army that began around midnight on Friday along the 740 kilometer loc.
No victims were reported on the Indian side, he said.
Among the aggressive measures of India announced on April 23 against Pakistan was the unilateral movement to suspend the IWT of 1960, which was negotiated by the World Bank and has suffered through wars and decades of hostility.
India also closed its borders and the degraded diplomatic ties on what its government and the media stated, without offering any evidence, was the alleged support of Islamabad to cross -border terrorism.
The next day, the National Security Committee (NSC) in Islamabad announced Pakistan’s response, placing all trade, bilateral pacts and flights outside the limits for its eastern neighbor. He also asked India to “refrain from his reflexive guilt game and cynical and administrated incidents such as Pahalgam to promote his close political agenda.”
As tensions increased between nuclear powers, voices around the world, including the United Nations, asked both countries to exercise restriction. While Saudi Arabia and Iran offered to mediate, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he was confident that India and Pakistan “solve it.”
In an interesting comment, Trump said: “There have been tensions on that border for 1,500 years, so you know, it’s the same thing that has been.” Since the attack, Trump and other US officials have offered India “full support” to hunting to the perpetrators of the violent incident.
