Geneva:
A senior Pakistani diplomat has warned India that it will respond with “greater wildness and determination” if he was attacked again when he drawn attention to the UN conference on disarmament in Geneva to the recent hostilities between the two South Asian nations.
“South Asia does not need another crisis-it requires a future formed by cooperation, not confrontation,” Ambassador Bilal Ahmad, a permanent representative of Pakistan, told UN offices in Geneva, to the 65 members created by the international community to negotiate weapons control and disarmament agreements that began its session on Tuesday.
“If India chooses the path of aggression again, the consequences – and responsibility – will be entirely at his door,” he said, warning, “Pakistan will be ready to meet any Indian aggression at each escalating level of greater violence and determination.”
Pakistan, Ambassador Bilal Ahmad added, will stick to the ceasefire and point out that its preference remains unchanged: constructive commitment, results-oriented dialogue and the peaceful solution of all outstanding disputes, including Jammu and the Kashmir conflict in accordance with the UN security council solutions.
He said that India’s illegal threat and use of force against a nuclear armed neighbor who is now in the form of the Indian Management’s revisionist attitude-the so-called “new normal-to-be a serious threat to strategic stability in South Asia.
In fact, India’s missile, drone and air strikes on Pakistani territory earlier this month were part of a larger pattern aimed at “normalizing the idea that military strikes between nuclear-armed states are acceptable,” Pakistani emissary told the delegates.
“India seeks to normalize the idea that military strikes between nuclear armed states are acceptable; that military losses are acceptable if the political narrative can be controlled; that phantom victories may be required while real setback is denied when exposed to international media.”
