Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the armed forces and the people of Pakistan to remain \u201cprepared for all eventualities.\u201d After India\u2019s air strikes in Balakot. The statement came after an emergency meeting to review the situation, PTI reported. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi who is expected to brief the media later today, said India has committed \u201caggression\u201d by violating the LoC and Islamabad has \u201cright to self-defence\u201d.
\n\u201cFirst, they committed aggression against Pakistan today. It is a violation of the LoC. I consider it a violation of the LoC, and Pakistan his right to give a suitable response in self-defence,\u201d Qureshi told reporters after an \u201cemergency meeting\u201d with high-level officials at the Foreign Office (FO) for consultations.
\nQureshi said, \u201cNation should not be worried over the Indian act as the defenders of the country are fully prepared to respond to any misadventure.\u201d He also added that Pakistan is a \u201cpeace-loving\u201d nation and has \u201cregistered successes in the war on terrorism,\u201d reported Radio Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the armed forces and the people of Pakistan to remain \u201cprepared for all eventualities.\u201d After India\u2019s air strikes in Balakot. The statement came after an emergency meeting to review the situation, PTI reported. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi who is expected to brief the media later today, said India has …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[5347,5351,5341,5348,2215,201,5342,5350,1145,5343,5346,5349,5345,5344],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-40-crpf-officers","tag-committed-aggression","tag-foreign-minister-shah-mahmood-qureshi","tag-foreign-office-fo","tag-imran-khan","tag-india","tag-indias-air-strikes-in-balako","tag-islamabad","tag-pakistan","tag-pti-reported","tag-pulwama-attack","tag-radio-pakistan","tag-self-defence","tag-violation-of-the-loc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}