‘Hope Pakistan cooperates with India in searching down perpetrators’: JD Vance on Pahalgam assault
Underlining the necessity for India to keep away from escalating a broader regional battle in response to final week’s Pahalgam assault, US Vice President JD Vance expressed hope that Pakistan would collaborate with India to determine and apprehend the terrorists concerned.
India ought to reply to the Pahalgam terror assault in a method that doesn’t result in a bigger battle within the area, whereas Pakistan ought to cooperate with its neighbour to verify the terrorists working in its territory are “hunted down”, US Vice President JD Vance has stated.
“Our hope right here is that India responds to this terrorist assault in a method that does not result in a broader regional battle. And we hope, frankly, that Pakistan, to the extent that they are accountable, cooperates with India to make it possible for the terrorists typically working of their territory are hunted down and handled,” Vance stated throughout an interview with Fox Information.
His feedback come amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan within the aftermath of the Pahalgam assault, one of many deadliest incidents within the Kashmir Valley lately. Pakistan-trained terrorists focused vacationers on a scenic meadow, accessible solely by a hike or pony experience, leaving 26 civilians useless.
Vance had visited India final month and, in a submit on X, strongly condemned the assault whereas expressing solidarity with the victims and their households.
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate conversations with India’s Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday. Rubio urged Pakistan to help within the investigation and work in direction of decreasing tensions within the area.
India Vows Agency Response
House Minister Amit Shah, in his first public response to the assault, vowed a agency and focused response. “If anybody thinks {that a} cowardly assault is their victory, they have to keep in mind that is Narendra Modi’s India — and revenge shall be taken, one after the other,” Shah stated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi echoed this sentiment, vowing to pursue these accountable and their supporters “to the ends of the earth.”
India has taken a collection of robust measures towards Pakistan in retaliation together with suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, expelling all Pakistani army attaches, shutting down the Attari-Wagah border, and shutting Indian airspace to Pakistani carriers. Pakistan responded with reciprocal measures, together with suspending the Simla Settlement.
India has since relaxed its border closure barely, extending the deadline for Pakistani nationals to return house by way of the Attari-Wagah border. Nevertheless, Pakistan has not but responded in type by permitting Indian nationals to cross into their nation.
