The Quad grouping of the United States, India, Japan and Australia called for the perpetrators of a Pahalgam attack in which 26 killed in India illegally Jammu and Kashmir (IIJK) to be brought to court without delay.
The attack on April 22 led to heavy fighting between nuclear armed Pakistan and India in the last escalation of a decades of old rivalry when India blamed Pakistan, who denied responsibility while he called on a neutral investigation.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs gave a joint statement from the Ministers of the Group, who had together in Washington, but stopped naming Pakistan or blaming Islamabad for the attack. To date, India has not provided any evidence of the alleged involvement of Pakistan in the attack.
“The quad unambiguously condemns all acts of terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross -border terrorism,” the ministers said in the explanation.
They called on all members of the United Nations to actively collaborate with “all relevant authorities” when delivering justice to the “perpetrators, organizers and financiers of this reprehensible act”, without any delay.
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On May 7, the Indian Air Force carried out a non -laid out attack on civilian goals in Pakistan and claimed that New Delhi had focused on “terrorist infrastructure”. The strikes have killed several Pakistani citizens and wounded much more. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF), crashed to prevent the Indian antenna threat, shot six IAF hunting aircraft, including three French Rafales.
The strikes establish an exchange of attacks between the two countries by fighter jets, rockets, drones and artillery that kill dozens of people -the Fires on 10 May.
It was cease -Fires for the first time announced by US President Donald Trump on social media after Washington had conversations with both parties, but India differed with the claims of Trump that it was the result of his intervention and threats to break trade discussions.
India’s position has been that New Delhi and Islamabad have to solve their problems directly and without outside involvement.
On Monday, the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, repeated his position that trade was not a factor in the cease -the fire.
“Relationships will never be free of problems,” he said, referring to the United States, and added: “What is important to deal with it and keep that trend in the positive direction.”
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