New Delhi: In a sharp reaction to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s warning on Monday, the Pakistan government on Tuesday issued a statement to say they would “pay India in its own coin in case of any Indian misadventure”.
Sitharaman had made it clear that the sacrifice of soldiers killed in the attack on the Sunjuwan camp will not go in vain and Pakistan will pay the price for its “misadventure”.
She asserted that even though evidence of Pakistan's role may be shared, India still reserved the right to respond adequately at the time of its choosing. "Pakistan will pay for this misadventure. I repeat Pakistan will pay for it,” the defence minister, who was in Jammu to take stock of the situation, told reporters.
Pakistan Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan, in his statement on Tuesday said, “Any Indian aggression, strategic miscalculation, or misadventure regardless of its scale, mode, or location will not go unpunished and shall be met with an equal and proportionate response.”
“We will defend robustly every inch of Pakistan’s soil. Instead of the knee-jerk reaction of blaming Pakistan without substantiation, India must answer for state-sponsored espionage against Pakistan. Living evidence in person of Kulbushan Yadev is in front of the world.
"India has failed to deliver justice to the 42 Pakistanis murdered in the Samjhota Express terrorism eleven years ago this week," Khan's statement issued from Rawalpindi read.
Pakistan had also asked India to refrain from any cross-border strikes after the Indian government found that Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad was responsible for the attack on Sunjuwan, in which soldiers and their families were targeted.
Saturday's attack on the camp near Jammu was the worst in months, with five soldiers and the father of one of the soldiers killed and women and children among the ten wounded.
The government has said that the heavily armed attackers were members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group. Pakistan, however, has denied responsibility and said India should not rush to judgment without a full inquiry.
Khan's latest statement said, "India is destabilizing regional peace in word and deed; through irresponsible statements on nuclear deterrent and through its bloody, five-fold escalation in 2017 of attacks on unarmed civilians on the line-of-control and working boundary."
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