Pakistan condemns Indian defence minister’s statement on offering help to Islamabad to combat terror

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Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal speaks to the media at the Foreign office in Islamabad on March 28, 2019. - Pakistan on March 28 said it had found no links between militants swept up in a recent dragnet and a suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month that brought the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of war. (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI / AFP)

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Tuesday strongly condemned the Indian defence minister’s statement in which he offered ‘assistance’ to Pakistan in combating terror on its soil.

Pakistan had termed the statement made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as “provocative and irresponsible”.

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The Indian minister had made the controversial statement while addressing a election rally in Karnal in Haryana state.

 

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