{"id":311085,"date":"2019-04-08T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311085"},"modified":"2019-04-08T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:49:08","slug":"india-rejects-pakistans-foreign-minister-allegation-of-planning-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-rejects-pakistans-foreign-minister-allegation-of-planning-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"India rejects Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister allegation of planning attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-309852 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u00a0on Sunday rejected as &#8220;irresponsible and preposterous&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister statement that\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0will attack it again and accused\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0of trying to whip up\u00a0war hysteria\u00a0in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In response to queries on a statement made by the Pakistan Foreign Minister, the Official Spokesperson said, \u201cIndia rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This public gimmick appears to be a call to Pakistan-based terrorists to undertake terror attack in India,&#8221;\u00a0the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement further said, \u201cIt has been made clear to Pakistan that it cannot absolve itself of responsibility of a cross border terrorist attack in India. No attempt at creating an alibi for its complicity in such attacks will succeed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPakistan needs to take credible and irreversible steps against terrorism operating from all territories under its control rather than making hysterical statements to obfuscate the core issue that bedevils our region: cross- border terrorism,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPakistan has been advised to use established diplomatic and DGMO channels to share any actionable and credible intelligence it has about imminent terror attacks,\u201d the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia reserves the right to respond firmly and decisively to any cross-border terrorist attack,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u00a0on Sunday rejected as &#8220;irresponsible and preposterous&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister statement that\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0will attack it again and accused\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0of trying to whip up\u00a0war hysteria\u00a0in the region. In response to queries on a statement made by the Pakistan Foreign Minister, the Official Spokesperson said, \u201cIndia rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311092,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311085\/revisions\/311092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}