Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) has said India “has once again ignited an inferno in the region” and called on the international community to recognise the gravity of its “unprovoked illegal actions and to hold it accountable for its blatant violations of international norms and laws”, reports Al Jazeera.
In a statement released after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, the NSC said India’s “unjustified attacks deliberately targeted the civilian areas, on the false pretext of presence of imaginary terrorist camps”, and caused “grave danger to commercial airlines”.
“The responsibility for ensuing consequences shall lie squarely with India,” it said.
Earlier, Director General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that Indian airstrikes in multiple civilian sites across Pakistan overnight killed 26 civilians and injured 46 others.
Speaking during a briefing on Wednesday, the DG ISPR also condemned the Indian action as an unprovoked and cowardly act of aggression, Geo TV and Express Tribune reported.
“Last night, cowardly India launched 24 attacks on six locations within Pakistan, resulting in the martyrdom of eight innocent civilians,” he said.
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