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Pakistan Seeks Comprehensive Dialogue With India - Foreign Minister

© AP Photo / Alex BrandonPakistan Deputy Primer Minister Ishaq Dar
Pakistan Deputy Primer Minister Ishaq Dar - Sputnik India, 1920, 30.07.2025
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Pakistan and India were engaged in a four-day military confrontation in May this year, their worst in decades, with both nations firing missiles at each other's defence installations.
Pakistan is seeking a dialogue with India to discuss all outstanding issues, including the region of Kashmir, which is administered by the two neighbours at present but claimed by both, and the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), which New Delhi put in abeyance following the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22, the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told reporters in a media briefing in New York.
"Pakistan is ready for dialogue with India. We seek a composite dialogue that includes Kashmir as well as other issues, including the Indus Waters Treaty," he said, as per the Associated Press of Pakistan.
"Military-to-military communications are taking place [between Pakistan and India]. But there is no contact on the political side," he added.
Notably, India put the IWT on hold after terrorists killed 26 tourists, mostly civilians, in Pahalgam, a picturesque town in Kashmir. India blamed Pakistan for the massacre, a charge the Islamic Republic denied.
Subsequently, India launched Operation Sindoor on the intervening night of May 6-7 to avenge the Pahalgam assault, targeting nine terror facilities in Pakistan.
In response, Pakistan targeted Indian military installations, attacking them with swarm drones and missiles.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told the nation's Parliament that Pakistan launched a thousand missiles and drones on India on May 9; however, all these attacks were repelled by a robust and multi-layered air defence network led by the Russian-origin S-400s and the indigenous platforms like the Akash missile system.
"On May 9, Pakistan launched 1,000 missiles and drones on India. But all of them were destroyed in the air. Our air defences crushed their drones. They destroyed and scattered them mid-air. Had any of them struck our cities, the destruction would have been unimaginable," Modi informed the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the country's parliament, during a debate on Operation Sindoor.
Eventually, hostilities came to a halt between the two sides on May 10 after Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations reached out to his Indian counterpart, hours after the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out successful air strikes at more than a dozen Pakistani military bases, inflicting heavy damage to their runways, radar sites, and aircraft hangars.
Indian PM Narendra Modi addresses the press at the Parliament House in New Delhi at the start of the Monsoon Session - Sputnik India, 1920, 29.07.2025
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