Islamabad, Apr 30 (UNI) A panic-stricken Pakistan has once again resorted to peddling fake news, claiming it has “credible news that India plans to attack Pakistan within 24-36 hours”.
The country’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar claimed that India will use the Pahalgam terror attack as a “false pretext” for launching a military offensive against Pakistan.
In a televised statement, the Pakistani Information Minister said: “Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to carry out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident.”
Tensions between the two countries escalated on April 22 after terrorists gunned down 26 people in Kashmir’s Pahalgam region. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Resistance Front, a group linked to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organisation.
Repeating its tired old rhetoric, the Pakistani Information Minister said: “Pakistan has been the victim of terrorism itself and truly understands the pain of this scourge.”
Calling Pakistan a “responsible state”, Tarar added that Islamabad had openheartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation of the attacks by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth.
“Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason, India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond,” he said.
Islamabad has entered panic mode as the Pakistan Army – already stretched thin and continuously under attack by BLA fighters in Balochistan and the TTP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – is reportedly seeing massive resignations from officers after the Indian forces were granted a free hand by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In addition, PM Modi’s statement on “hunting down the terrorists till the ends of the Earth” did not go down very well with Pakistan, whose analysts have come up with all kinds of fancy and far-fetched theories regarding “Indian aggression”.
The attack was one of the deadliest attacks in J&K, and in response, India has scrapped the Indus Waters Treaty, closed the Attari border, expelled Pakistani nationals except diplomats, declared military advisors at Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi persona non grata, recalled its own military advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, and thinned its diplomatic staff.
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