Pakistan summons Indian envoy to protest attacks

Pakistan has sent a demarche to India’s Chargé d’Affaires Geetika Srivastava and summoned her to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday to lodge a protest over attacks.

In a statement released in Islamabad, the Foreign Office said the envoy was summoned to receive Pakistan’s “strong protest over the unprovoked Indian strikes at multiple locations across Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir”.

“It was conveyed that India’s blatant act of aggression constitutes a clear violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty,” the ministry said.

It stressed that the strikes were in “contravention of the UN Charter, international law, and established norms governing inter-state relations”.

“Pakistan firmly rejected India’s baseless justifications for its hostile conduct. The Indian side was warned that such reckless behaviour poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability,” the statement said.

Reporter Anwer Abbas