Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi claimed that India was planning a surgical attack on its neighboring country to divert attention from the problems it had been facing at home.
At a press conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday, Qureshi said Islamabad had “credible information” that New Delhi was planning such a move.
Qureshi told the media that New Delhi was trying to seek “tacit approval” for the strike from its “partners”. He did not share any details.
At the press meeting, which was held at the end of Qureshi’s two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, the Pakistani Foreign Minister said that he has shared his country’s concerns on this front with the leaders of the Emirates. United Arab.
“An important event has emerged … I have learned through our intelligence forces … that India is planning a surgical strike against Pakistan,” Qureshi said.
He then claimed that India was already “trying to seek tacit approval” from what it called “major players that they consider to be their partners.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister claimed that India was facing an internal crisis due to what he called failed government policies.
Qureshi criticized the Indian government’s handling of multiple issues, pointing to the situation in Kashmir, the protest by farmers, the coronavirus pandemic and the state of religious minorities in India.
He also claimed that Pakistan has revealed that India was “sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan” in a dossier it shared with the international community.
The Pakistani Foreign Minister mentioned a recent report by EU DisinfoLab that claimed to have exposed a concerted Indian disinformation network of “fake websites and fake NGOs that they had launched with the sole aim of defaming Pakistan.”
Pakistan was “fully prepared to respond and defeat the Indian designs,” he said.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister said that information of an imminent attack on Pakistan had been shared with the relevant governments, which had reported on India’s plans and Pakistan’s readiness to respond to them.
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