The way India used the Pahalgam incident to create an atmosphere of war in the region by immediately blaming Pakistan without any investigation and taking harsh diplomatic measures, including the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, is rapidly growing in the global community. There is a growing sense of the unreasonableness of this behavior. The international community seems to be playing its role in preparing India for a transparent investigation.
In this regard, important progress was made by Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Greece and Iraq yesterday. Turkish Ambassador Dr. Irfan Nezerulu, in a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, made it clear that Turkey supports Pakistan’s stance on a transparent investigation into the Pahalgam incident, while the Prime Minister, while thanking the Turkish government and people, pointed out the fact that India is conspiring to link Pakistan to the incident despite failing to provide any evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the Pahalgam incident.
The Foreign Ministers of Switzerland and Greece also confirmed Pakistan’s stance on a transparent and impartial investigation in a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar yesterday. The Foreign Minister, while rejecting India’s baseless allegations and provocative propaganda in his conversation with the Foreign Ministers of Greece and Switzerland, clarified the dangerous implications of India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty.
The Swiss Foreign Minister appreciated Pakistan’s readiness to investigate the Pahalgam incident and expressed his desire to cooperate in the investigation. The Head of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Kaja Klass, in a telephonic conversation with the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and India, urged both countries to exercise restraint and adopt the path of dialogue to improve the situation. Irani Foreign Minister Araqchi is also visiting Pakistan during the Pak-India tension, after which he will also go to India and meet high-ranking officials of both countries to discuss ending the mutual tension.
A very important development in terms of the mobilization of the international community to end the tension between Pakistan and India has come in the form of contact between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Foreign Ministers of both India and Pakistan. He has urged both countries to resolve their differences through political and diplomatic means within the framework of the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration.
According to the Russian Embassy, in an online conversation with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, Lavrov discussed Pakistan-India relations. Stressing the need for bilateral communication, he said that differences should be resolved in accordance with the provisions of the 1972 Simla Agreement and the 1999 Lahore Declaration, which have agreed to adopt the method of peaceful dialogue for resolving disputes between South Asian neighbors.
Undoubtedly, the mobilization of the international community to end the tension between the nuclear powers of South Asia is not only a regional need but also a need for global peace and the progress made in this regard yesterday is very welcome. The wise course for the Indian government is not to let these efforts of the international community go in vain and, as Pakistan has offered, to fully cooperate in a transparent investigation of the incident with the participation of the international community, because the path of war would be disastrous for India itself and its consequences would be very serious at the global level.
