Pakistan has requested a “neutral” investigation on the murders of tourists in Kashmir administered by India that New Delhi has blamed Islamabad, saying that he was willing to cooperate and favored peace.
India has identified two of the three attackers suspended as Pakistani, thought that Islamabad has denied any role in the attack on Tuesday to kill 25 Indians and a Nepali national.
“Pakistan is fully prepared for cooperation with any neutral investigator to ensure that the truth is discovered and justice is served,” Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Saturday.
“Pakistan remains committed to peace, stability and monitoring of international standards, but will not commit to their sovereignty,” he said at a press conference.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif said: “The tragedy recently in Pahalgam is another example of this perpetual guilt game, which must reach a ground.”
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has promised to persecute the attackers to “the ends of the earth” and said that those who planned and took him to “will be punished beyond his imagination.”
Meanwhile, calls continue to grow from Indian politicians and others for military reprisals against Pakistan.
After the attack, India and Pakistan unleashed a series of measures to each other, with Pakistan closing their airspace to the Indian airlines, and India suspending the 1960 Indus Water Treaty that regulates the exchange of water from the Indo River and its tributaries.
The two parties, which demand so much to Kashmiro while governing it in part, have also exchanged fire through their de facto border for two days in a row after four years of relative calm.
The Indian army said he had responded to the fire of small “unpaved” weapons of multiple positions of the Pakistan army that began around midnight on Friday along the de facto border of 740 km (460 miles) that separates the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir. He did not report that there are no casualties.
Pakistan’s army has not yet commented on the exchange of fire.
Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pakistani diplomat, told Al Jazeera that there was “a gloomy atmosphere” in Pakistan with a lot of sight of what could happen next.
Lodhi said: “Nuclear neighbors are on the verge of a more dangerous confrontation, so there are fears, especially due to Prime Minister Modi and Indian media.”
The former ambassador emphasized that,
“That would mean a very strong and robust response from Pakistan,” he said.
“Then, fear and shaving are really focused on the fact that we could be on the threshold of a complete crisis,” Lodhi concluded.
The Indians who live in Jammu and the border village of Kashmir, pure RS, have also begun to clean community bunkers as diplomatic tensions with Pakistan increase.
“We are the residents of the border areas. Whatever happens in India, our areas will be the first to be affected,” said Balvir Kaur resident to the Reuters news agency.
“We are preparing Odelves so that we are ready if something happens. The Indian government would not need to think that the white people living at the borders are safe. We do not want to be a burden for them.”
In an editorial published on Saturday, Pakistan’s Dawn media said: “It is time again to give diplomacy a chance since Neith Pakistan or India can afford war.”
The editorial added that “these are dangerous times in the subcontinent, and there is a need for Pakistan as India to show restricted and handle the development after pahalgama with meaning.”
Meanwhile, the Indian security forces have continued their search for suspects and demolished the houses of Kashmir administered by India of at least five rebel rebels, including a part of Believe in the last attack.
The broken glass pieces covered the site of one of those houses in the Murram village in the pulwama district on Saturday. The locals said they had not seen Ehsan Ahmed Sheikh, a suspended fighter whose house was destroyed, in the last three years.
“No one knows where he is,” said neighbor Sameer Ahmed to Reuters.
“Ehsan’s family has lost his home. They will suffer for this, not him.”
But citing the “interest of national security”, the Indian authorities have declared the prohibition of live coverage of military and large -scale security operations.
