Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that Pakistan’s response after Pahalgam terror attack was “responsible for India’s provocation and was innocent”. Sharif was talking to Turkish Ambassador Dr. Irfan Negiroglu, who met him in Islamabad, Radio Pakistan reported.
The Prime Minister said that “Despite India’s inflammatory action after the Pahalgam incident, Pakistan’s response was responsible and Napi-Tuli”. He said that Pakistan has always condemned all forms and expressions of terrorism. The Prime Minister claimed that India “failed to share any evidence and is making false efforts to connect Pakistan with Pahalgam attack”.
He further alleged that India “has not yet responded to Pakistan’s proposal to conduct a reliable, transparent and neutral international inquiry to find out the facts behind the Pahalgam incident”. Sharif also said that Pakistan will cooperate fully in such an investigation and will welcome it if Türkiye is involved in it.
He said that Türkiye’s support to Pakistan reflects the relationship between the two countries historic, deep and the tester of time. After the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April, relations between India and Pakistan were soured. 26 people were killed in this attack, mostly tourists. This was the deadliest attack in the valley after the Pulwama attack in 2019.
