Conflict
Amid ceasefire violations from India, ties cannot be improved, says Pak foreign minister
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said that they don’t expect any improvement in relations with India as the ‘Indian Army continues to violate the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC).
The Government of Pakistan, in a tweet quoting country’s foreign minister Khawaja Asif, said that under such circumstance, ties between the two countries cannot be improved.
#India is violating ceasefire agreement time and again on the Line of Control and working boundary. In such circumstances, we are not expecting improvement in relations between the two countries.
~Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif pic.twitter.com/kFLgjB2aY6— Govt of Pakistan (@pid_gov) March 15, 2018
According to the Dawn, Asif’s statement comes a day after cross-border firing injured two locals in Pakistan Administered Kashmir’s Poonch district. Three members of a visiting United Nations Military Observers Mission for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), who had arrived to inspect the situation along the LoC barely escaped with their lives, the report claimed.ALSO READ: Ceasefire violations: As Army calls it a ‘local phenomenon’, here is who said what
The report further mentioned that the UN officials were in the Polas village, hardly a kilometre away from the dividing line, when the cross-border firing began. The officials, who had been speaking to residents about the situation along the border, were “in a state of shock” after the unexpected incident, police said.
“India is violating the ceasefire agreement time and again on the Line of Control and Working Boundary,” Radio Pakistan quoted Asif as saying. “In such circumstances, we are not expecting improvement in relations between the two countries,” the foreign minister told a private news channel.
