Don’t want to worsen ‘border tension with 2 nuke neighbours’: Pak
11 Oct 2014 5:03 AM IST
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will meet with top military officers tomorrow to discuss this week’s heavy fighting with India at the Kashmir border, the worst violence in over a decade.
Seventeen civilians have been reported killed - eight in India and nine in Pakistan and dozens more have been injured during recent firings.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Thursday, ‘We don’t want to convert border tension between two nuclear neighbors into confrontation’ but stressed that ‘Pakistan is fully capable to respond to any Indian aggression’ according to a statement released by his office.
His remarks came after Defence Minister Arun Jaitley warned this morning, ‘If Pakistan persists with this adventurism then our forces will continue to fight. The cost of this adventurism will be unaffordable.’
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Security Committee which includes the chiefs of the armed forces and the Foreign, Defence and Home Ministers.
India and Pakistan have been trading heavy mortar and gun fire along the international border and the Line of Control since 1 October.
Sharif has been criticised by the Opposition in his country, including cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for failing to respond appropriately to India’s ‘aggression.’
Seventeen civilians have been reported killed - eight in India and nine in Pakistan and dozens more have been injured during recent firings.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Thursday, ‘We don’t want to convert border tension between two nuclear neighbors into confrontation’ but stressed that ‘Pakistan is fully capable to respond to any Indian aggression’ according to a statement released by his office.
His remarks came after Defence Minister Arun Jaitley warned this morning, ‘If Pakistan persists with this adventurism then our forces will continue to fight. The cost of this adventurism will be unaffordable.’
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Security Committee which includes the chiefs of the armed forces and the Foreign, Defence and Home Ministers.
India and Pakistan have been trading heavy mortar and gun fire along the international border and the Line of Control since 1 October.
Sharif has been criticised by the Opposition in his country, including cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for failing to respond appropriately to India’s ‘aggression.’
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