ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan will step up stress on Afghanistan and provoke a brand new diplomatic offensive in opposition to India after the current practice hijacking incident discovered their linkages.
Official sources mentioned the authorities involved had gathered sufficient proof to conclude that the Afghan soil was used within the brazen terrorist assault in Sibi.
Pakistan has publicly acknowledged that terrorists had been involved with their handlers in Afghanistan in the course of the practice hijacking.
Sources mentioned Pakistan would take up the difficulty with Afghanistan by way of diplomatic channels and use different means to cease the menace.
Afghanistan has rejected the Pakistan allegations and insisted that Taliban by no means had any ties with Baloch terrorist teams.
The sources mentioned whereas Pakistan would elevate the matter with Taliban authorities, it could launch a diplomatic offensive in opposition to India.
Islamabad has determined to achieve out to key regional and worldwide gamers for this goal. It’s anticipated to take up the matter on the UNSC with the assistance of China. Pakistan is presently a non-permanent member of the 15-member UNSC.
In the meantime, members of the Safety Council on Friday condemned within the strongest phrases the heinous and cowardly terrorist assault on a Jaffar Specific Passenger Prepare travelling from Quetta to Peshawar close to the town of Sibi, Balochistan province, Pakistan, on 11 March 2025 and the taking of passengers as hostages.
“This reprehensible act of terrorism resulted within the grievous lack of no less than 25 Pakistani nationals. The Balochistan Liberation Military claimed that the assault was carried out by its Majeed Brigade,” learn a press release issued in New York.
The members of the Safety Council expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the households of the victims and to the Authorities and the individuals of Pakistan, and so they wished a speedy and full restoration to those that had been injured.
The members of the Safety Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its varieties and manifestations constitutes one of the critical threats to worldwide peace and safety.
The members of the Safety Council underlined the necessity to maintain perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of those reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and produce them to justice.
They urged all states, in accordance with their obligations below worldwide regulation and related Safety Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with the Authorities of Pakistan on this regard.
The members of the Safety Council reiterated that any acts of terrorism are prison and unjustifiable, no matter their motivation, wherever, at any time when and by whomsoever dedicated.
They reaffirmed the necessity for all states to fight by all means, in accordance with the Constitution of the United Nations and different obligations below worldwide regulation, together with worldwide human rights regulation, worldwide refugee regulation and worldwide humanitarian regulation, threats to worldwide peace and safety attributable to terrorist acts.