New Delhi: Pakistan on Wednesday expressed condolences by removing itself from a cruel terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after 28 tourists were killed in violence.
The country’s Foreign Office expressed concern and offered sympathy, but its Defense Minister rejected any link to Islamabad, as a result of “home-developed” dissatisfaction within India.
In response to the media query, a statement from Pakistan’s Foreign Office said, “We are worried about the loss of life of tourists in an attack in Anantnag district. We expand our condolences to the people near the deceased and wish for quick recovery to the injured.”
The attack, which took place in the Besaran meadow near Pahalgam, is the deadliest in the valley since the 2019 Pulwama bombing.
Pakistan Defense Minister Khwaja Asif said in an interview with live 92 news, “Pakistan has no relation. These are local rebellions, from Nagaland to Kashmir, Chhattisgarh to Manipur. It is not foreign intervention.”
Asif asked to labeled violence as a rebellion against what Asif described as a Hindu -led repression, “These people are asking for their rights. Hindutva forces are suppressing minorities, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims … and people are reacting.”
Comments with India’s long situation are rapidly opposite that Pakistan-based groups, such as Lashkar-e-Tabiba and Resistance Front (TRF), are actively involved in Jammu and Kashmir, behind its curtains.
Fasting the rhetoric, Asif accused India of supporting unrest in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan, “India is sponsoring unrest in Balochistan. We have presented many evidences of India many times behind instability in Pakistan.”
Saying that Pakistan condemned terrorism “under any circumstances”, Asif said, “If the army or police are persecuting against the people, people denied fundamental rights, blaming Pakistan becomes a convenient excuse. ,
