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Pakistan hits back at India over ‘surgical strikes’ threat

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Pakistan has strongly condemned Indian Home Minister Amit Shah’s reported statement in which he threatened the country with so-called “surgical strikes”, saying it will spare no effort in “resolutely thwarting any aggressive designs”.

“Pakistan condemns in strongest terms the irresponsible and provocative statement reportedly made by Indian Home Minister today threatening so-called “surgical strikes” in Pakistan,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said in a statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday.

“While Pakistan is a peace-loving country, we will spare no effort in resolutely thwarting any aggressive designs,” he added.

#WATCH | "Another important step was surgical strike under PM Modi & former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. We sent out a message that one should not disrupt India’s borders…There was a time when talks happened, but now is the time to reciprocate," says Home Min Amit Shah pic.twitter.com/BrMFUfzLRT
— ANI (@ANI) October 14, 2021

The spokesperson recalled that Pakistan’s swift response to India’s Balakot misadventure in 2019, including the downing of Indian combat aircraft and capture of Indian Air Force pilot, fully demonstrated the will, capacity and preparedness of “our armed forces to deter Indian aggression”.

“This delusional statement only goes to further demonstrate the BJP-RSS combine’s propensity to stoke regional tensions for both ideological reasons and political expediency, based on enmity towards Pakistan,” he added.

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“Such statements also serve as smokescreens to divert world attention from India’s state-terrorism and systematic human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and against Muslims and other minorities in India,” the spokesperson said.

He further said that Pakistan has repeatedly drawn the attention of the international community to India’s sinister designs of staging “false flag” operations to implicate Pakistan and Kashmiris.


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