Islamabad:
The National Security Advisors of Pakistan and India have established a contact with each other after India launched a series of missile attacks within Pakistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir in the early hours of Wednesday.
Pakistan general, General As As As As Malik, who is also DG ISI, spoke with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval in what seems to be part of the efforts to seek decalcalation, according to officials familiar with development.
“Yes, the National Security Advisors of Pakistan and India are in contact,” said Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, to The Express PAkGazette.
It would not provide more details about the nature of the discussions and the purpose of contact between the two NSA.
A Pakistani official said that such communications channels were necessary during crisis times.
It is believed that the two NSA established contacts after the agitated diplomatic efforts behind the scene of international and regional actors.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, who also has the additional position of the NSA, also spoke with the Pakistani and Indian NSA shortly after the response of the Indian missiles and Pakistan’s response.
Although the National Security Committee (NSA) said that Pakistan would respond to Indian missile attacks in a place, time and form of his election, the subsequent discourse of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the National Assembly suggested that Pakistan may not give more answer.
The sources said Pakistan was invested by a third country over the imminent Indian missile strikes. Similar channels, according to the sources, transmitted to Pakistan that India did not want a greater escalation.
What made the difference?
When India made air attacks in February 2019 in Balakot after the pulwama attack, it was a surprise for Pakistan since Indian combat planes never crossed the control line (LOC) since 1971.
Pakistan anticipated some kind of action of India, but never thought that the Modi government would risk carrying out such attacks, although Indian combat planes only fell useful loads without real damage to the field. Nueva Delhi, however, wanted to send a message to his domestic audience and Pakistan that he was willing to establish a new normality in the Indian-Pakistan relationship.
As the Indian movement was a surprise, the Pakistani authorities took a full day to decide how to advance. Dr. Moeed Yusuf, who was a national security advisor at that time, said despite Indian misfortune in Balakot, the Pakistani civil and military authorities were still looking for non -kinetic options to decline the tensions. Finally, Pakistan decided to avenge Indian action, knocking down his combat plane and capture the pilot.
However, the difference this time was that there was absolutely clarity in Pakistan. If India launched an attack, Pakistan’s response would be Quid Pro Quo Plus, according to officials familiar with the discussions behind the scene.
There were clear instructions that Pakistan’s armed forces would respond decisive and quickly at the time India hit the country.
In the early hours of Wednesday, when reports from Muzaffrabad to Kotli and Mueridke to Bahawalpur on multiple explosions began, Pakistan knew that India launched the strikes he had been planning since the attack of the Pahalgama.
Shortly after those attacks, the main military spokesman appeared on a television channel and confirmed the attack of India. What was different this time, however, was that Pakistan began his reprisals immediately. The answer was both the air and the ground. In the first hour of Pakistan’s reprisals, Pakistan knocked down five Indian combat planes, including the sophisticated 4.5 generation that India bought France in a hurry to underpin their defenses after the failed operation in Balakot.
“Pakistan could have demolished 10 Indian combat planes,” said a press conference from the Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. But Pakistan, he said, observed restriction.
There was a complete blackout in the Indian media about the losses he suffered as a result of Pakistan’s strong response. The Hindu, one of the oldest and most credible newspapers, initially confirmed the fall of three Indian combat planes on his website, but the story was apparently eliminated about the pressure of the Indian government to avoid shame.
An American commentator told CNN that if the news that Pakistan knocked Rafale Jets true that it would be a great blow to India, that he boasted of his aerial superiority after the induction of the war planes made in French.
Some experts thought that the duel between the two countries was, in fact, a test for Chinese and Western technology. Pakistan, according to the officials, has J-10C: Jets Chinese Pakistan acquired after India included Rafale in her squad.
A high -ranking French intelligence official told CNN on Wednesday that a Rafale combat plane operated by the Indian Air Force was demolished by Pakistan, in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated combat planes made in French has been lost in combat.
This is a massive development and shows that China now has avant -garde technology, according to an American commentator.
