DPM Dar, DG ISPR reject India's Pahalgam claims, warn of decisive resp
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DPM Dar, DG ISPR reject India's Pahalgam claims, warn of decisive response if provoked
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Ishaq Dar and DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry spoke at a joint press briefing in Islamabad on Wednesday amidst growing tensions between Pakistan and India after the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
DG ISPR debased the Indian narrative, holding New Delhi responsible for conducting a strategy of misinformation, fabricated provocation, and terrorism sponsored by the state to destabilize Pakistan and the region.
He pointed out the geographical fact of the attack, saying that the location was deep inside Indian-held territory, distant from the nearest town of Bagh in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Emphasising Pakistan’s approach based on facts, he said, “If the allegation is that the Pakistan-based so-called terrorists did this incident, then you need to be cognizant of where it lies, how deep within [IIOJK]. If you see the terrain, you will see it is quite hilly, it is not the sort of terrain that is friendly and not the sort of terrain where all-weather fair roads exist. It’s mostly [four-wheelers] that travel.”
Using visuals of the region, he underscored the logistical implausibility of Indian claims. “The distance from the incident site to the nearest police station was 30 minutes,” he said, questioning how “an FIR could be registered in 10 minutes.”
Critiquing the inconsistencies in India’s account, the DG ISPR noted that while some Indian reports spoke of indiscriminate firing, others emphasised a religiously motivated act of terrorism. He suggested this contradiction indicated a pre-planned narrative.
“There you see the collusion, how the choreography is carried out: first projecting and predicting where we will strike, then the attack happens, followed by its glorification on social media,” he said. “If you observe the pattern, their electronic media jumps in within minutes. The same sequence was visible in Pahalgam.”
He said the same media choreography was seen in the past, including the bombing of the Jaffar Express. “Is it the first time it is happening? No, there is a litany of using terror incidents for political ends. This is important — these terror incidents have a political objective. We saw last time, in Pulwama, how the terror incident in February was used for … change of status of Kashmir.”
Chaudhry further accused India of using the Pahalgam incident to distract from Pakistan’s progress in fighting terrorism and stabilising its economy. “We are seeing now that a terror incident that happened in Pahalgam is being used for the purpose of IWT, distracting [from] Pakistan’s continuously and hard-fought won war on terrorism and successful efforts in reviving the economy.”
He also warned of a dangerous trend: the use of Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails for fake encounters. “We have reports, the information that hundreds of Pakistanis held in jails in different locations by India are used in fake encounters projected as terrorists and infiltrators.”
He added that following the Jaffar Express attack, the spokesperson of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) appeared on multiple Indian news channels, glorifying the assault. “Indian media was the first to show footage of the attack that was shot by the BLA,” he noted, calling it evidence of India’s state-sponsored terrorism.
“The issue of Indian-sponsored assassinations and terrorism is transnational,” DG ISPR added. “It’s affecting Canada, the US and Australia as well.”
Justifying Pakistan’s call for a neutral investigation, he said: “Once we say that we have gotten nothing to do with Pahalgam and once we say that the only way out is an independent credible transparent investigation, we have strong reasons, empirical evidence, and facts on the basis of which we are saying this.”
He revealed fresh intelligence: “We have credible intelligence that Indians post-Pahalgam have tasked all their proxies to undertake terrorist acts everywhere in Pakistan. Whether these proxies are operating in Balochistan or other parts of Pakistan.”
Since January 2024, he said, Pakistan had experienced 3,700 terror incidents, conducted 77,816 operations, neutralised 1,666 terrorists, and recorded 3,896 casualties. “This is terrorism that is being abetted and sponsored by India. It’s for the whole world to see, they feel it, its effects. We must be cognisant that Pakistan is the last bulwark standing against this scourge of terrorism.”
Criticising India’s political motives, he stated: “For the sake of its short-term myopic objectives, it is facilitating this terrorism, it is abetting this perverted creeping ideology. Why? For short-term political objectives.”
On the targeting of Muslims post-attack, DG ISPR dismantled the narrative of Islamist terrorism, stating: “I talked earlier that there is a planned and choreographed campaign of Islamist terrorism, but the acts speak differently. This is what some sane people are saying — the tourists who came in taxis belonging to Muslims, they stayed in hotels owned by Muslims, they ate food cooked by Muslims … and after the attack, they were covered and protected by Muslims. The first person to die was Muslim.”
He raised a critical question: “Why is an effort being made to label the whole community of Indian Muslims as terrorists? Is this part of some agenda? Is it part of that hate that is being systematically put into society?”
He warned that even dissenting voices in India are being silenced. “What the Indians are trying to do is … internalisation of external problems and externalisation of internal problems. Kashmir is an external problem and they are externalising it. Terrorism and extremism are an internal problem of India. Instead of handling it, and addressing it, they are externalising it. This cycle is manifesting itself in this Pahalgam incident.”
When asked about Pakistan’s potential response, he said, “We are monitoring the situation very carefully in all terrains and accordingly, our responses and countermeasures in all domains are ready and, as you must have seen in the NSC declaration, the statement of the government that came last night as well — there will be decisive and assured actions.”
Without disclosing operational specifics, he assured: “Rest assured that the people of Pakistan, with its full resolve, will defend the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Pakistan at all costs.”
Echoing this, Dar concluded, “Pakistan will exercise restraint for the purpose of regional peace, but — and that is very clear — if provoked, any action from the other side will be responded to in a befitting manner and in a stronger way.”
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