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Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) president and erstwhile Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that “cooperation betwixt Pakistan and India’s quality agencies could importantly trim coercion successful South Asia.”
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman, who is presently starring a high-powered delegation to the U.S. arsenic portion of a planetary diplomatic propulsion to question enactment pursuing its caller struggle with India, was speaking astatine a property league astatine the U.N. Headquarters connected Tuesday (June 3, 2025), the Dawn paper reported.
“I americium wholly assured that if ISI and RAW were acceptable to beryllium down and enactment unneurotic to combat these forces, we would spot a important alteration successful coercion successful some India and Pakistan,” Mr. Bhutto-Zardari was quoted arsenic saying by the paper connected Wednesday (June 4, 2025).
He besides urged the planetary assemblage to stay engaged successful South Asia, informing that the hazard of struggle betwixt nuclear-armed neighbours had grown, not diminished, aft the caller ceasefire.
“With the involution of the planetary assemblage — and I would similar to notation peculiarly the relation played by the U.S. President Donald Trump and his squad led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio — we did negociate to execute a ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan. This is simply a invited archetypal step, but it’s lone a archetypal step,” Mr. Bhutto-Zardari said.
Tensions betwixt India and Pakistan escalated aft the April 22 Pahalgam panic attack, with India carrying retired precision strikes connected panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful the aboriginal hours of May 7.
Pakistan attempted to onslaught Indian military bases connected May 8, 9, and 10. The Indian broadside responded strongly to the Pakistani actions.
The on-ground hostilities ended with an knowing of stopping the subject actions pursuing talks betwixt the directors wide of subject operations of some sides connected May 10.
Mr. Trump claims that the US has stopped India and Pakistan from fighting.
However, India has been consistently maintaining that the knowing connected cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
Mr. Bhutto-Zardari emphasised that diplomacy and dialog were the lone “viable way to peace,” and reiterated Pakistan's willingness to prosecute successful a wide dialog with India — including practice connected counterterrorism.
“Pakistan would inactive similar to cooperate with India to combat terrorism. We can’t permission the destiny of 1.5 billion, 1.7 cardinal radical successful the hands of non-state actors and terrorists... For them to decide, astatine a whim, that (when these) 2 nuclear-armed powers volition spell to war,” helium said.
Referring to India, the PPP person said "linking immoderate violent onslaught successful the portion to the menace of warfare with Pakistan" is "untenable". “You can’t person nary quality solution mechanisms betwixt 2 nuclear-armed countries,” helium said.
He projected the constitution of a mutually agreed level wherever some sides could rise complaints, analyse violent incidents jointly, and enactment unneurotic to guarantee accountability.
Reiterating Pakistan’s stance connected India’s determination to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), Mr. Bhutto-Zardari said, “it is an effort to weaponise water.”
Following the Pahalgam panic onslaught that killed 26 people, New Delhi, among different punitive actions, announced the suspension of the 1960 IWT accord, which governs h2o sharing betwixt India and Pakistan.
“The specified menace to chopped disconnected the h2o proviso of 200 cardinal radical is simply a usurpation of the U.N. Charter. Acting connected this menace volition beryllium seen arsenic an enactment of warfare by Pakistan,” Mr. Bhutto-Zardari said.
Earlier, the Pakistani delegation met with the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the President of the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett of Guyana, successful New York, the Dawn reported.
Published - June 04, 2025 03:14 p.m. IST
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