Australia asks India, Pakistan to 'exercise restraint' and engage in dialogue

MELBOURNE: Australia on Tuesday instructed India and Pakistan to "exercise restraint" and have interaction in discussion to ensure issues are resolved peacefully even because it requested Islamabad to take "urgent and meaningful" motion towards terrorist teams together with JeM working from its soil.

Australian overseas affairs minister Marise Payne's statement got here hours after Indian fighter jets struck Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)'s largest terror camp in Pakistan in a pre-dawn assault.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) bombed terror camps at multiple places across the Line of Control (LoC) at the Pakistani facet in a pre-dawn strike, 12 days after the Pakistan-based terror team JeM performed the Pulwama assault in Kashmir.

The Australian executive is concerned concerning the relations between India and Pakistan, Payne said.

"Australia urges both sides to exercise restraint, avoid any action which would endanger peace and security in the region and engage in dialogue to ensure that these issues are resolved peacefully," she said.

"The Australian executive is involved in relations between India and Pakistan following the horrific terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir on 14 February, which Australia has condemned.

"Pakistan should take urgent and meaningful motion towards terrorist teams in its territory, together with Jaish-e-Mohammed which has claimed duty for the 14 February bombing, and Lashkar-e-Taiba," Payne said.

She additionally took notice of the experiences that India has said it has now carried out operations concentrated on terrorist teams founded in Pakistan.

"Pakistan should do everything imaginable to put in force its personal proscription of Jaish-e-Mohammed. It can not permit extremist teams the prison and bodily space to perform from its territory," the minister said.

These steps would make a considerable contribution to easing tensions and resolving the underlying reasons of struggle, Payne added.


There is heightened tension between India and Pakistan, the 2 nuclear-armed arch-rivals after the February 14 suicide assault by means of JeM that killed at least 40 CRPF infantrymen in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.


India launched a significant diplomatic offensive towards Islamabad after the assault and highlighted Pakistan's role in the use of terrorism as an software of state coverage.


India requested Pakistan to take quick and verifiable motion towards terrorists and terror teams working from territories below its keep an eye on.


New Delhi additionally introduced the withdrawal of the Most Favoured Nation status for Pakistan and hiked the customs accountability by means of 200 according to cent on items originating from Pakistan.
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