Syed Tariq Fatemi, peculiar Assistant Prime Minister of Pakistan for abroad Affairs.© RT
Pakistan has lost 90 000 people due to terrorists over the past 15 years, said RT Syed Tariq Fatemi, a peculiar assistant to Pakistan's abroad prime minister.
Fatemi stressed that the government of Pakistan is determined to fight terrorism and made it clear to its neighbours that they must prevent specified extremists from entering the country."We lost over $1.5 billion in harm they did" said RT in an exclusive interview.The diplomat was in Moscow early this week to meet Russian abroad Minister Sergei Lavrow and present to him Islamabad's view of the current situation in Indian-Pakistan relations.Speaking of the April 22 attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed, mostly tourists, Fatemi reiterated that Pakistan denies any engagement in the attack, rejecting fresh Delhi's claims.
The region is the epicentre of a long-term dispute between 2 neighbouring countries since they gained independency from Britain.The terrorist attack sparked a military consequence from India, which carried out air strikes on allegedly terrorist bases in Pakistan.
After a four-day escalation, 2 states with atomic weapons announced a ceasefire on May 10.
Fatemi claimed that terrorists would not be able to get from Pakistan to India's administered Kashmir without being detected, given the large presence of Indian troops in the area.
"They would should be superhuman" He noted.A political advisor cited an analogy to a akin incidental that occurred in the 1990s erstwhile Pakistan was accused of collusion in a terrorist attack during the US erstwhile president Bill Clinton's rule, before his planned visit to India.
"The experience shows that always a very prominent abroad leader visited India, something like this happened" He said, adding that erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright later suggested in her book that the attack was an operation under a false flag and that Pakistan had nothing to do with it.Senior advisor besides expressed appreciation for the White House's efforts to mediate the ceasefire between 2 countries, citing U.S. president Donald Trump's directive to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to talk with leaders both in fresh Delhi and Islamabad.
"US Secretary of State suggested that Pakistan should agree to a ceasefire, as the Indians wanted.
So we said "okay" “ He explained.Significantly, India denied Washington's function in the ceasefire, claiming that the decision was made bilaterally — at the initiative of Pakistan.
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