The worst Pahalgam terrorist attack was made in the Baisaran of Pahalgam on April 22.
After that in an interview former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto has acknowledged that his country (Pakistan) has a rich past of supporting terror organisations.
Bhutto’s acceptance came after the country’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, in an interview earlier, admitted that Pakistan as a country had been ‘funding’ terrorism for three decades.
As far as what the defence minister (Asif) said, I don’t think it is a secret that Pakistan has a past,” Bhutto said in a conversation with Sky News.
Bilawal’s acceptance came amid high tensions and Pakistan’s downgraded diplomatic relations with India after the worst-ever terror attack on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 27 innocent people.
Interestingly the 35-year-old Bilawal Bhutto is the son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who herself was assassinated in a terrorist on December 27, 2007, by a 15-year-old suicide bomber in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Asif admitted in a recent interview that Pakistan as a country has been ‘supporting, backing and funding’ terrorism for three decades. Though Asif repented that it was a mistake that the country was suffering from.
On Pakistan’s support for terrorism, Bilawal told Hakim that it was “an unfortunate part of our history.”
India, blaming Pakistan, responded by deciding to shut the Check Post at Attari in Amritsar along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab immediately. India also decided to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.
The decisions to downgrade diplomatic ties with Pakistan in view of cross-border links to the Pahalgam terrorist attack were taken in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 23.
