Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has said that Pakistan is fighting the largest inland war against terrorism. According to Kashmir Media Service, in an interview with prominent Indian journalist Karan Thapar, Bilawal Bhutto stated that Pakistan does not allow any group to carry out terrorist attacks — neither within the country or abroad. He emphasized that Pakistan has suffered the most from terrorism over the past several decades.
“We have lost 92,000 lives altogether. Just last year alone, we lost more than 1,200 civilians in over 200 different attacks,” he said. Commenting on the recent Pahalgam attack, Bilawal refuted Indian allegations of Pakistani involvement and accused New Delhi of rejecting transparency. “You know that immediately after this allegation, Pakistan’s Prime Minister offered to be part of any impartial international investigation, because we have nothing to hide. It was a sign of our confidence.
But it was the Indian government that rejected the offer and misled its own people through lies,” he said. He pointed out that India had yet to provide evidence that any individuals from Pakistan were involved in the attack: “It is very uncomfortable for you that I point out the truth to the Indian public that they have been lied to that Pakistan was involved in this attack when we were not.
To this day, the [Indian] government has been unable to provide the evidence... and that’s why during [the recent India-Pakistan] war, the Indian media and the government launched a campaign of disinformation to continue to bamboozle their people”. The PPP Chairman further said, “We want peace, not war. I don’t want the future generations of India and Pakistan to keep fighting over Kashmir, terrorism, or water.” He said India had even threatened to cut off water to Pakistan’s 250 million people -- a move he called “inhumane and dangerous”.
Bilawal concluded, “I want to tell the people of India to beware of those who spread misinformation”. Bilawal also accused India of supporting terrorism in Pakistan. “There is a long list of terrorist attacks inside Pakistan with Indian fingerprints. You are aware of Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in Balochistan. The recent Jaffer Express bombing is directly linked to the Indian intelligence”, he said.
Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)