The Pakistani Senate on Monday passed a unanimous resolution condemning the statements of Army chief General Bipin Rawat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging Pakistan’s involvement in terrorism.
The resolution, moved by Senator Sehar Kamran from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), stated that India has committed unprecedented acts of violation along the Line of Control (LoC) and has been targeting civilians.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that Pakistan’s armed forces would respond with full force if India tried to carry out any surgical strikes inside Pakistan. He also said that India’s past claims of surgical strikes were found to be baseless and false.
Mr. Asif claimed that Kashmir’s ‘struggle for freedom’, India’s political compulsions, and its avoidance of a composite dialogue were among the reasons for its unprovoked ceasefire violations. He also said that India was making failed attempts to link the ‘Kashmir struggle’ with cross-border infiltration and terrorism and claimed that India’s campaign to isolate Pakistan has failed.
He informed the Senate that India had carried out 330 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and 40 along the ‘working boundary’ until December 2016, which killed 45 civilians while 138 others were injured.
