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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif , while addressing the National Assembly on Wednesday night , after terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK were destroyed in the Indian strikes earlier during the day, accused India of violating the international law.
Before replying to this accusation and the dynamics that Pakistan wanted to invoke as a victim of the strikes on its soil, a question that Shehbaz Sharif should answer is, which international law authorized it to stage one after another terror attacks in India, and Jammu and Kashmir in particular?
It appeared that Sharif was mourning the loss infrastructures of Lashkar-e-Toiba , Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizb-ul Mujahedeen . The strikes at nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir were at heart of terrorism machinery of Pakistan.
A simple reading of the April 25th resolution , passed by the United Nations Security Council , after condemning the Pahalgam terror attack in strong terms makes it clear that India acted in accordance with the international law .
The SC 16050 read : “ The members of the Security Council underlined the need to hold perpetrators , organizers , financers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice ,” and the UNSC members stressed that “ those responsible for these killings should be held accountable , and urged all States, in accordance with the international law and their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions , to cooperate actively with relevant authorities in this regard.”
Pakistani P M admitted that an incident had taken place in Paahalgam in Kashmir on April 22nd without mentioning that how many tourists were killed in the massacre enacted by Pakistani terrorists . Pakistan denied its hand in the barbaric killings that shook the whole humanity but not Pakistan . Sharif claimed that he had offered India to go in for “ neutral and transparent probe into the incident, but instead of agreeing to the probe , which would have laid bare the facts of Pahalgam ( massacre), India attacked Pakistan instead.” He termed this as violation of international law.
Before dilating on this , Pakistan should have pondered over its own act of striking in Iran and Afghanistan , in. what it called “ terror camps” in these two countries which also are its immediate neighbours. Which international law had it followed while doing so. It didn’t have any evidence to suggest the role of these two countries in troubles in Pakistan , though it remains a striking fact that it has been hit hard by TTP – Tehreek-e-Taliban , Pakistan, which has its bases in Afghanistan . But this also is a fact that the TTP is having its bases in the borderlands of Pakistan.
The enormity of the terror attack shook the world, and the whole of the international community , and the global leaders from US President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladmir Putin , not only condemned brutality of the terrorists in killing tourists , but offered unqualified support to India in its fight against terrorism. They voiced full support to India in bringing perpetrators , backers and planners to justice . This was in line with the international support that had come in the wake of 9/11 , in 2001, when the foundations of the US were shaken by the massive terror attack . America was given thumbs up by the world to go in for revenge strikes against the terror networks . And on October 7, 2001, America launched “ war on terrorism. It bombarded Afghanistan to punish Al-Qaeda and Taliban, who were behind the 0/11 act of huge acts of terrorism that left nearly 3,000 people dead.
Pakistan , then under the military rule of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, had joined as a frontline state in America ‘s war on terrorism without questioning which international law authorized Washington to do so ? America had invoked NATO’s defence clause ( Article 5) . It states than an armed attack against one member state is o be considered an attack against all members ..
India knows that the UNSC authorizes attacks on the terror infrastructures as a matter of self-defense and preempting the future threats. India used both the options- it was attacked by terrorists in Pahalgam and before that in other places with varying degrees of loss of lives and properties in J&K , and elsewhere in the country. As Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri shared details with media yesterday, the terrorist outfits Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e- Toiba were planning more Pahalgam-like terror attack on the Indian soil.
Operation Sindoor, considered from all angles, was in accordance with the international law. And the fact that Pakistan is overlooking only the terror-infrastructure was hit, not any o its military , and civil structure or institution .That should have been understood by Pakistan in the right spirit of the laws against terrorism .
