The Pakistani envoy also urged US President Donald Trump to intervene and help defuse the situation as fear grows of an imminent response by India
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Islamabad’s envoy to the United States has said that his nation was not inclined towards a conflict with India as Pakistan was “a smaller country”. In an interview with Newsweek, Ambassador Rizwan Saeed Sheikh said, “We do not want to fight, particularly with a bigger country.”
“We want peace. It suits our economic agenda; it suits our nationhood. It suits every objective that we have currently. But we want peace with dignity,” Sheikh added.
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However, the ambassador warned that Pakistan “will die with dignity than survive with indignity” if a war was imposed.
Tensions between India and Pakistan are running high in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, in which 26 people were killed, most of them Hindu tourists. While India has not blamed Pakistan officially for the attack, its intelligence agencies believe Pakistani nationals were involved. A massive hunt for the terrorists is currently underway in Kashmir as intelligence sources believe they could still be holed up in the mountainous region.
The US has urged both sides to exercise restraint, with both US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio holding talks with their Indian counterparts on Thursday (May 1) and expressing support to New Delhi’s fight against terrorism.
According to a statement from the Indian Defense Ministry,
Hegseth said that “the US stands in solidarity with India and supports India’s right to defend itself. He reiterated the strong s