US urges India and Pakistan to discharge tension after Kashmir’s attack

The United States called on India and Pakistan to work together to “de -escalate” after the deadly attack warriors in Kashmir last week killed 26 civilians.

Secretary of State Mark Rubio held some talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India and Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Wednesday and called for “supporting peace and security in South Asia”.

India accuses Pakistan of supporting militants behind Attack on April 22 on a picturesque meadow near the resort city of the Shulgam. Islamabad rejects allegations.

On Wednesday, India also announced the closure of the air space for all Pakistani aircraft, in the last of the tit measures for Tat taken by both parties.

“criminals, fans and planners“Murg Attack” should be brought to justice, “said Indian Foreign Minister Yashankar after talking to his American counterpart by phone as Rubio expressed his sadness and confirmed Washington’s support in India’s fighting terrorism.

Meanwhile, the chief American diplomat expressed the need ‘condemn the terrorist attack“In his negotiations with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

He urged Islamabad to cooperate “in an investigation into this unreasonable attack.”

During the call, Sharif rejected “Indian attempts to link Pakistan with the incident”, a statement issued by his office. Pakistan’s Prime Minister also called on the United States to “hit India to gain rhetoric and act responsibly.”

Phone calls come after the Minister of Information of Pakistan warned that they have a “reliable intelligence” that is assumed India may start hostilities Against the country in the next 24-36 hours. Delhi did not publicly commented on these claims.

There were assumptions about whether India would respond to military strikes against Pakistan, as was done after the deadly attacks of warriors in 2019 and 2016. Islamabad warned of revenge in the event of hostilities by India.

This week, against the backdrop of the Indian Prime Minister’s mounting tension, Narendra Modi held meetings with senior state and defense officials in Delhi.

On Wednesday, the Security Committee in India, led by Modi, met for the second time after the attack.

It happened a day after the Prime Minister, during a meeting with the leading officials of India, gave the armed forces a free hand to decide on “terms, purposes and regime” in response to the attack of the muddy, according to India, according to India, according to India News News Referring to unnamed sources.

Over the past few days, troops on both sides traded intermittent fire.

On Tuesday India “Categorically objected“Up to several violations of Pakistan’s ceasefire during the weekly call between the highest army officials, Indian news reports.

A day later, India announced that it would not allow Pakistan plane – commercial or military – fly through the air space, responding to a similar step of Pakistan.

Last week, India rejected most visas provided by Pakistani citizens and asked them to leave the country for a few days, which has passed since. He also suspended the key agreement on the shared use of water with Pakistan.

Islamabad Next revenge With similar visa cancellations and the suspension of peace in Delhi 1972.

As the measures were announced, 786 Pakistani citizens left India And 1465 Indians returned from Pakistan, media reports.

Meanwhile, India has been blocked by an Instagram account of a number of Pakistani film shops and celebrities.

The search for some celebrities are now unavailable.

“This is because we fulfilled a legal request for limiting this content,” Instagram said.

India did not officially commented on why the accounts were offline. More than a dozen Pakistani news channels were also banned in India earlier this week for spreading what has been described as provocative content, The media is said.

Kashmir, of which India and Pakistan claim that in full, but are introduced only partially, they became a point of prolonged between the two nuclear armed arms countries because they were divided in 1947.

Kashmir with Indian introduction saw an armed uprising against Indian government since 1989, and militants aimed at security forces and civilians.

India did not officially name any organization she suspected, but initially reported that the group called “resistance” was behind the attack. However, the group refused to participate in the statement issued a few days later. It is reportedly related to the Pakistani militant with Pakistan Lashkar-E-Taiba, which India is classified as a terrorist.

Indian police called Three of four suspected attackers. They said two were Pakistani citizens and one local man with Indian introduction. No information about the fourth person.

Many of the survivors said the militants were specifically aimed at Hindu people.

The attack, the most deadly attack on civilians in two decades in the controversial territory, has caused widespread anger across India.

Modi promised to take care of the guilty.

“India will identify, track and punish” people behind the attack in this way, “for their fantasy”, “Modi said on fire days after the murder last week.

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