Hours after India launched Operation Sindoor concentrating on Pakistan’s terror infrastructure, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned he’s monitoring the state of affairs between India and Pakistan carefully and hopes this “ends shortly”.
Indian armed forces on early Wednesday carried out missile strikes on 9 terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, together with in Bahawalpur, a stronghold of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed.
In a publish on X, Rubio mentioned, “I’m monitoring the state of affairs between India and Pakistan carefully. I echo @POTUS’s feedback earlier at this time that this hopefully ends shortly and can proceed to have interaction each Indian and Pakistani management in direction of a peaceable decision.”
Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval spoke with Rubio “shortly after the strikes” and briefed him on the actions taken, the Indian Embassy in Washington DC mentioned.
“India’s actions have been targeted and exact. They have been measured, accountable and designed to be non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani civilian, financial or navy targets have been hit. Solely identified terror camps have been focused,” a press launch from the Embassy of India, Washington DC mentioned.
It mentioned that “shortly after the strikes”, NSA Doval spoke with Rubio and “briefed him on the actions taken”. The discharge mentioned that terrorists killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir on April 22 in a brutal and heinous assault.
“India has credible leads, technical inputs, testimony of the survivors and different proof pointing in direction of the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists on this assault,” it mentioned.
“It was anticipated that Pakistan would take motion in opposition to terrorists and the infrastructure that helps them. As a substitute, throughout the fortnight that has passed by, Pakistan has indulged in denial and made allegations of false flag operations in opposition to India,” it added.
