Cliff Notes
- India’s high commissioner stated that India will respond to any escalation from Pakistan “proportionally and in exactly the same light,” following recent missile strikes on alleged terrorist sites in Pakistan after an attack in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists.
- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned India’s actions, vowing that India would “now have to pay the price” for its “blatant mistake”, amidst ongoing border skirmishes.
- The high commissioner described India’s military actions as “precise, targeted, reasonable and moderate,” reiterating that they were aimed exclusively at terrorist infrastructure to avoid further escalation.
India will respond ‘in exactly the same light’ if Pakistan retaliates, high Commissioner tells Sky News
India will respond to any escalation from Pakistan “proportionally and in exactly the same light”, the country’s high commissioner has told Sky News.
Weeks after 26 tourists were shot dead by gunmen in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month, India carried out missile strikes in Pakistan and Islamabad-administered parts of the disputed region.
On Wednesday, India said it hit nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites, while Pakistan said it was not involved in the April attack and the sites were not militant bases.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has since vowed that India will “now have to pay the price” for their “blatant mistake,” and skirmishes have also been reported along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Speaking to Sky’s The World with Yalda Hakim on Thursday, India’s high commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, said “the original escalation is Pakistan’s sponsored terror groups’ attack on civilians”.