{"id":4518,"date":"2019-02-19T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:41","slug":"amidst-rising-tensions-over-pulwama-pakistan-will-retaliate-if-india-attacks-says-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/amidst-rising-tensions-over-pulwama-pakistan-will-retaliate-if-india-attacks-says-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst rising tensions over Pulwama, \u2018Pakistan will retaliate if India attacks\u2019 says Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has stated \u00a0that his country \u2018will not think of retaliating, it will retaliate\u2019 if attacked by India.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the middle of scaling tensions between the two neighbouring countries over the Pulwama terror strike where over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed by a suicide bomber deployed by Jaish-e-Mohammed &#8211; a terrorist outfit based in Pakistan, Imran Khan attributed all the talk emerging out of India on waging war against Pakistan to propaganda before elections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Denying any involvement of his country in the Pulwama attack, the Pakistan Prime Minister stated that his country would have no \u2018option\u2019 but to \u2018retaliate\u2019 if attacked by India. In a video interview to a news agency, Imran Khan asked for India to share any \u2018actionable intelligence\u2019 it may have to bring the guilty to book. Adding that his government will take action against those guilty not because Pakistan is under pressure but because the perpetrators are \u2018enemies\u2019 of Pakistan, \u00a0the Pakistan PM stated that his country was moving towards \u2018stability\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alleging that India was \u2018accusing Pakistan without any evidence\u2019, Imran Khan pointed out that the attack coincided with the visit of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia to his country. No \u2018fool would sabotage\u2019 such an \u2018 important event\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">India has already withdrawn the Most Favoured Nation status of Pakistan after the Pulwama attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has stated \u00a0that his country \u2018will not think of retaliating, it will retaliate\u2019 if attacked by India. In the middle of scaling tensions between the two neighbouring countries over the Pulwama terror strike where over 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed by a suicide bomber deployed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}