Iran has offered to mediate between India and Pakistan after tensions escalated over the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 25 lives on April 22.
‘India and Pakistan are brotherly neighbours’
Iran Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi posted a tweet on his X account, stating that India and Pakistan are brotherly neighbours of Iran, enjoying relations rooted in centuries-old cultural and civilizational ties.
‘We consider them our foremost priority’
He wrote on Twitter, “India and Pakistan are brotherly neighbors of Iran, enjoying relations rooted in centuries-old cultural and civilizational ties. Like other neighbors, we consider them our foremost priority.
Tehran stands ready to use its good offices in Islamabad and New Delhi to forge greater understanding at this difficult time, in line with the spirit taught by Persian poet Saadi:
“Human Beings are members of a whole
In creation of one essence and soul
If one member is inflicted with pain
Other members uneasy will remain”
Terrorists attacked tourists at Baisaran meadow
On April 22, terrorists attacked tourists at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam, killing 25 Indian nationals and one Nepali citizen while leaving several others injured. It was noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of elections in the Union Territory and its steady progress towards economic growth and development.
PM Modi: ‘Will now break the backbone of the perpetrators of terror’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also assured the country that the terrorists responsible for this attack, along with those who conspired it, will face punishment beyond their imagination, The Prime Minister asserted that the time has come to eliminate the remaining strongholds of terrorism and that the willpower of 140 crore Indians will now break the backbone of the perpetrators of terror.
Khwaja Asif warned of an “all-out war”
Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja Asif has also in the interview with Sky News presenter Yalda Hakim warned of an “all-out war” possible with India. Asif admitted that Pakistan has been funding and backing terrorist groups.
In a video clip that has now gone viral, Pakistan’s defence minister is in conversation with Sky News’s Yalda Hakim, when she asks him, ” But you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organisations?
‘We have been doing this dirty work for the US for about 3 decades’
Khwaja Asif in his reply says, “We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about 3 decades… and the west, including Britain…That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan’s track record was unimpeachable.”
