India-Pak Tensions: Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, visited the Inter-Providers Intelligence (ISI) Headquarters in Islamabada on 6 April, Tuesday.
Sharif was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister/Overseas Minister Ishaq Dar and Defence Minister Khawaja Asif , information company PTI stated quoting state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
The providers chiefs — Chief of Military Workers Normal Asim Munir, Chief of Naval Workers Admiral Naveed Ashraf and Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar — have been a part of the visiting staff, in keeping with a bunch photograph launched on the event.
The image additionally confirmed ISI Director Normal Lt Gen Muhammad Asim Malik — who was just lately appointed because the nation’s nationwide safety adviser — and the army’s media spokesperson, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
The high-level go to comes almost every week after Pakistan stated it anticipated a army motion by India within the wake of a lethal assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 folks, largely vacationers. India has implied ‘cross-border linkages’ of the attackers. Pakistan has rejected the declare.
The go to entailed an in depth briefing on the prevailing safety surroundings, with a selected give attention to preparedness for typical ‘risk’ from India within the aftermath of Pahalgam terror assault. “The management was apprised of regional safety developments and the evolving risk matrix, together with typical army choices, hybrid warfare ways, and terrorist proxies, a press assertion from Pakistan Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO) stated.
The Prime Minister and accompanying officers underscored the crucial of heightened nationwide vigilance, seamless inter-agency coordination, and bolstered operational readiness to discourage and decisively reply to any violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the assertion stated.
Prime Minister Sharif lauded ISI’s crucial function in safeguarding nationwide pursuits and enabling knowledgeable nationwide safety decision-making beneath advanced and dynamic circumstances.
Sharif was quoted as saying that total nation was behind Pakistan’s Armed Forces. The management reaffirmed Pakistan’s resolve to defend the homeland in opposition to all threats, the assertion stated.
What occurred in Pahalgam?
The Pahalgam terrorist assault was carried out within the fabled Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam on April 22, a day when United States Vice President JD Vance was in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a state go to to Saudi Arabia.
India, blaming Pakistan, responded by deciding to close the Built-in Test Put up (ICP) at Attari in Amritsar alongside the India-Pakistan border in Punjab instantly. India additionally determined to droop the Indus Waters Treaty, amongst different measures.
The management was apprised of regional safety developments and the evolving risk matrix.
The choices to downgrade diplomatic ties with Pakistan in view of cross-border hyperlinks to the Pahalgam terrorist assault have been taken within the Cupboard Committee on Safety (CCS) assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 23.
