MUZAFFARABAD, May 19: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan on Sunday said that India’s provocative steps along the Line of Control were an indication that it could go for any misadventure, and warned that inaction of the world community at this stage would be catastrophic for the global peace.

“Indian government is escalating tensions along the cease-fire line (LoC) which suggests that it wants to attack Azad Kashmir most probably to divert world attention from the massacres in occupied Kashmir and anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat and other states,” said Sardar Sikandar in response to reporters’ questions at the Combined Military Hospital. The PM had come to the hospital to see the victims of Indian shelling, among whom he also distributed relief money.

He said the Indian leaders were mistaken in thinking that Azad Kashmir could be a soft target for them. “We have liberated this territory by Jihad and we know how to defend it,” he said, adding that every man, woman and child of Azad Kashmir would fight tooth and nail to frustrate the evil designs of the enemy.

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