Pakistan and India are close to reducing the accumulation of troops along its border to the levels before the conflict between the neighbors with nuclear weapons this month broke out this month, on Friday, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, the president of Pakistan of the set personnel set of senior staff, although he warned that the crisis had increased the risk of the staircase in the future.
Both parties used combat airplanes, missiles, drones and artillery in four days of clashes, their worst fight in decades, before the fire was announced.
The recent clashes between Pakistan and India arose after Pahalgam’s attack on April 22 in illegally occupied Indians Jammu and Kashmir (Iiojk) who killed 26 people, most of them tourists.
Nueva Delhi blamed the incident without evidence of Pakistani elements, a position denied by Islamabad, which sought an independent investigation into the incident.
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Pakistan and India withdraw the troops from the progress positions, confirmed by the president of the Joint Committee of Chiefs of Staff. “We have almost returned to the situation before April 22,” General Sahir Shamshad Mirza told Reuters. pic.twitter.com/wendodjhzq
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On May 7, India launched missiles in civil places, which claims to describe as “terrorist infrastructure” through the border.
This caused a defensive response from Pakistan and an accumulation of posterior troops by both countries along the border.
General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, president of Pakistan, of the Joint Chiefs of General Staff, said the two military had begun the process of reducing troops levels.
“We have almost returned to the situation before April 22 … we are approaching that, or we must have addressed that for now,” said Mirza, the Pakistani military official higher than speak publicly from the conflict.
The Ministry of Defense of India and the Office of the Head of Defense of India did not immediately respond to Reuters requests to comment on Mirza’s comments.
Mirza, who is in Singapore to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue forum, said that although there was no movement towards nuclear weapons during this conflict, it was a dangerous situation.
“Nothing happened this time,” he said. “But you cannot rule out any strategic calculation error at any time, because when the crisis is activated, the answers are different.”
He also said that the risk of climbing in the future had increased since the fight this time was not limited to the IIOJK, the picturesque region in the Himalayas that both nations govern in part but that they claim in its entirety.
Dangerous trend
The two countries have fought three important wars, two of them on the disputed cashmere region and numerous armed skirmishes since both were born from British colonial India in 1947.
“This (conflict) reduces the threshold between two countries that are contiguous nuclear powers … in the future, it will not be limited to the territory in dispute. It would be reduced to (the entire) Indian and (all) of Pakistan,” Mirza said. “This is a very dangerous trend.”
Reuters has reported that the rapid escalation of hostilities ended partly due to diplomacy behind the scene that involves the United States, India and Pakistan, and the key role that Washington plays in La Paz.
India continues to deny any third -party role in Alto El Fuego and said that any commitment between India and Pakistan has to be bilateral.
But Mirza warned that international mediation could be difficult in the future due to the lack of crisis management mechanisms among countries.
“The time window for the international community to intervene would now be very minor, and I would say that damage and destruction can take place even before the international community exploits that time window,” he said.
Pakistan was open to dialogue, he added, but beyond a direct crisis line between the general directors of military operations and some direct lines at the tactical level on the border, there was no other communication between the two countries.
Mirza said there were no Back -Channel discussions or informal talks to facilitate tensions.
He also said he had no plans to meet with General Anil Chauhan, the head of defense of India, who is also in Singapore for the Shangri-la Forum.
“These problems can only be solved by dialogue and consultations, at the table. They cannot be solved on the battlefield,” Mirza said.
