ISLAMABAD
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed heightened tension between India and Pakistan was yet to be defused warning ‘’anything can happen before the elections in India.
In an interview with a British newspaper, whose contents were shared, Mr. Khan said his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi nearly brought the two countries on the verge of war. ‘’India has been gripped by war hysteria ahead of the elections there’’, he said.
Pakistan and India, the two nuclear armed states came at the brink of large scale later last month when India fighter jets intruded into Pakistani airspace. They returned dropping their mobs at secluded place.
Few days after the incident Pakistan shot down two Indian air force jets, one of them fell inside Pakistani territory. It pilot who ejected the jet was arrested and later repatriated to India in a goodwill gesture by Pakistani Prime Minister.
Mr. Khan blamed Modi’s “anti-Muslim” government and its heavy-handed policies in Indian-occupied Kashmir for the attack in Pulwama by a Kashmiri youth killing more than 40 Indian soldiers.
After a calm from 2002 ceasefire agreement, the forces of two countries during the last three years had hundreds of cross firing incidents on Line of Control (LoC), the defacto border that divides two parts of state of Jammu and Kashmir. The situation aggravated when India blamed Pakistan for the attack in Pulwma and resorted to aggression on LoC.
Prime Minister Khan told the British publication Pakistan has no link to Jaish-e-Mohammad, “There is no place for terrorists in Naya Pakistan.”
He claimed Islamabad has launched a crackdown against the banned outfits, and added that what is being done right now, has never happened before in Pakistan. On country’s crunch economic situation, Prime Minister Imran said Islamabad was “pretty close to an agreement” with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and added that this will be the last time Pakistan will ever have to go to the fund.
Mr. Khan turned down claims that Pakistan had become a client state of China and added that it always helped Pakistan in rainy days.
