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Pakistan foreign minister says his country will ‘consider stopping here’ if India does too — Here’s what India said

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Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday, May 10, said his country will “consider stopping here” if India too stops its military offensive against the country.India, in its briefing on Saturday morning, maintained that it does not want escalation, but Pakistan also must be committed to de-escalation.

Later in the day, top government sources told CNBC-TV18

that any future act of terror against India will be treated as an act of war against India and the country will respond accordingly.
On the night intervening May 9 and 10, Pakistan escalated the conflict with India in three ways within 12 hours — first, by moving on from loitering munitions to launching ‘high speed missiles’ (also called cruise missiles), second, smaller drones making way for attacks by full-scale fighter jets on Indian territory, and lastly, the Pakistan army starting to move its troops towards the border with India overnight.India maintained that it has only targeted terrorist camps in Pakistan and its military establishments, so far, while Pakistan continues to target civilians, residential areas and places of worship in India.. Jammu, Samba, Rajouri, Udhampur, Awantipora, Reasi, Poonch, Nagrota, Akhnoor, Pathankot, Amritsar, Ferozpur, Srinagar, are among the areas that Pakistan has targeted.

India’s ministry of external affairs and ministry of defence, in its briefing on Saturday morning, said Pakistan’s actions are escalatory and provocative. External affairs minister S Jaishankar said India’s response in return has been ‘measured and responsible’.

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