The last NSC meeting was held on August 4 to discuss India’s “use of cluster ammunition to target the civilian population on the Pakistani side of Kashmir”.
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan during his address to the nation in Islamabad on Feb 27, 2019. (Screen Grab: @PTIofficial/Twitter)
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan summoned a second session of the National Security Committee within a week after the Indian government’s move to scrap special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
In the second such session within a week, the top civil-military brass will mull over the response strategy after the Indian government decision, Geo News reported.
On Tuesday, While addressing a joint session of the National Assembly, Khan said that Pulwama-like attacks can follow the revocation of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir, which can lead to a war between India and Pakistan.
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“I can already predict this will happen. They will attempt to place the blame on us again. They may strike us again, and we will strike back,” the cricketer-turned-politician told his country’s Parliament”, he said.
“What will happen then? They will attack us and we will respond and the war can go both ways… But if we fight a war till we shed the last drop of our blood, who will win that war? No one will win it and it will have grievous consequences for the entire world. This is not nuclear blackmail,” he added.
On Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan skipped the joint session to hold a discussion on Kashmir on Tuesday leading to a ruckus in Parliament as opposition objected to his absence.
Following the developments, the Pakistan government condemned the abrogation of Article 370 saying that it will “exercise all possible options to counter it”.
The Pakistan Foreign Office in a statement said that it “strongly condemns and rejects” the announcement by India to repeal Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Reaffirming its “abiding commitment” to the Kashmir cause, Pakistan said, as the party to this international dispute, it will exercise all possible options to counter the “illegal steps”.
The last NSC meeting was held on August 4 to discuss India’s “use of cluster ammunition to target the civilian population on the Pakistani side of Kashmir”.
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