Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said that the country has “nothing to do” with the terrorist attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam that has killed 26 tourists.
“We have absolutely nothing to do with it. We reject terrorism in all its forms and everywhere,” Asif said.
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The defence minister, a close aide of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, pinned the blame for the Pahalgam attack on the “locals acting against the government” and a “revolution” and “homegrown forces” within the union territory.
Asif said, “This is all home-grown, there are revolutions in different so-called states against India, not one, not two, but dozens, from Nagaland to Kashmir, in the south, in Chhattisgarh, in Manipur. In all these places, there are revolutions against the Indian government.”
An outfit linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) known as The Resistance Front, has taken responsibility for the attack that took place on April 22 in the afternoon.
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