Washington: Pakistan ambassador to the United States said Thursday, May 8, that India and Pakistan had contacts in their respective national security advice when asked if the Asian nuclear neighbors had lines of conversation.
The ambassador, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, made these comments in an interview with CNN in which he also declared that the responsibility of defusing tensions between the two countries was with India after two days of confrontations.
“I think there have been contacts at the NSC level, but this escalation, both in terms of measures that have been taken and in terms of rhetoric that comes out, must stop,” said Sheikh in the interview without giving more details on contacts.
“Now, the responsibility of de-escalation is the responsibility of India, but there are constraints on restraint. Pakistan reserves the right to respond. There is enough pressure from our public opinion on the government to respond,” he added.
Many global powers, including the United States, has urged New Delhi and Islamabad to defuse tensions and keep the communication lines open. Washington called for a direct dialogue.
On Thursday, Pakistan and India have accused each other of having launched drone attacks, and the Minister of Defense of Islamabad said that new reprisals were “more and more some”, the second day of major clashes between nuclear neighbors. Two days of fighting killed nearly four dozen people.
The last climbing of the Indian-Pakistani rivalry old decades began on April 22 When activists killed 26 people in India in cashmere administered In an attack that New Delhi blamed in Islamabad, who denied the accusations and called for a neutral probe.
