Pak PM Imran Khan offers talks to defuse tensions
PTI | Updated: Feb 27, 2019, 16:46 IST
Imran Khan (ANI/Twitter)ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday offered to defuse tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and resolve the issues through talks even as he claimed that two Indian MIGs crossed the Line of Control and they were shot down.
"Our action was only intended to convey that if you can come into our country, we can do the same. Two of their MiGs were shot down (in the ensuing action)," Khan claimed in a live TV address.
His comments came minutes after the external affairs ministry in New Delhi said that Pakistan Air Force targeted military installations in India in response to Indian counter-terrorism operations but their attempts were foiled successfully though one Indian pilot is "missing in action".
Noting that all wars are miscalculated, and no one knows where they lead to, Khan said that better sense must prevail and the two sides should act with wisdom.
"I ask India: with the weapons you have and the weapons we have, can we really afford a miscalculation? If this (situation) escalates, it will no longer be in my control or in (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi's," Khan said.
"Let's sit together and settle this with talks," he added.
"Our action was only intended to convey that if you can come into our country, we can do the same. Two of their MiGs were shot down (in the ensuing action)," Khan claimed in a live TV address.
His comments came minutes after the external affairs ministry in New Delhi said that Pakistan Air Force targeted military installations in India in response to Indian counter-terrorism operations but their attempts were foiled successfully though one Indian pilot is "missing in action".
Noting that all wars are miscalculated, and no one knows where they lead to, Khan said that better sense must prevail and the two sides should act with wisdom.
"I ask India: with the weapons you have and the weapons we have, can we really afford a miscalculation? If this (situation) escalates, it will no longer be in my control or in (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi's," Khan said.
"Let's sit together and settle this with talks," he added.
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