Pakistan envoy urges Trump to help ease soaring Pak-Indian tension

Pakistan’s ambassadors across the world have started exposing India’s baseless propaganda against Pakistan following Pahalgam attack as Modi’s government blamed Islamabad without completing inquiry report of the terror incident, reported 24NewsHDTV Channel. 

Pakistan’s ambassador in Brussel Rahim Hayat Qureshi called on Director General for Bilateral Affairs at the Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs Birgit Stevens and briefed about India’s war mongering statements. The ambassador also drew attention to India’s baseless propaganda and illegal unilateral measures against Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Rizwan Saeed Sheikh has called for a durable resolution of Kashmir dispute for peace in the region. In an interview with Newsweek, he emphatically rejected any involvement of Pakistan in Pahalgam attack. 

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US has urged President Donald Trump to step in and help ease soaring tensions between India and Pakistan as the US leader simultaneously strives to solve conflicts in Europe and Middle East.

He said we are focused on the geo-economics side of our geography and our foreign policy.  He said we do not want to fight but want peace as it suits our economic agenda. He however made it clear that Pakistan wants peace with dignity. He said Pakistan will defend its territorial integrity in the event of a conflict erupting. 

“If we have a president who is standing for peace in the world as a pronounced objective during this administration, to establish a legacy as a peacemaker, or as someone who finished wars, defied wars and played a role in de-confliction, resolving the disputes, I don’t think there is any higher or flashier flash point, particularly in nuclear terms, as Kashmir,” Ambassador Sheikh said in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, a mass circulation American weekly magazine.

“We are not talking about one or two countries in that neighbourhood who are nuclear capable. So, that is how grave it is.”

The tensions between Pakistan and India followed an armed attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, a town in Indian-held Kashmir, in which 26 people were reportedly killed. Ambassador Sheikh said the Trump administration would need to pursue a more comprehensive and sustained initiative than witnessed in past U.S. attempts to defuse crises that have erupted between the two countries. 

Speaking to reporters the following day, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Trump administration officials are “monitoring the developments across the board in that region” and also “at multiple levels…are in touch with the governments of India and Pakistan.” Rubio is expected to speak with both sides this week. 

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, told OIC’s New York Group of Ambassadors on Wednesday that India posed serious threats to regional peace and stability when he briefed them on the latest situation in South Asia. 

A press release issued by the Pakistan Mission to the UN said that Ambassador Asim called India’s “behaviour highly provocative, politically motivated and irresponsible.” The OIC members, it said, expressed their full support and solidarity with the government and people of Pakistan. They emphasized the need for de-escalation through diplomatic engagement and addressing the root causes of the India-Pakistan tensions so as to ensure a just settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in line with the UN Security Council and OIC resolutions.