ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Pakistan has strongly refuted Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi’s statements at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue in New Delhi, terming them misleading, unverified and aimed at criminalizing the indigenous Kashmir freedom movement in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Pakistan said the Indian army chief failed to produce any transparent, verifiable or independently examined evidence to substantiate his assertions.
Human rights groups, UN experts and international media continue to report repression, raids, arbitrary detentions and systematic violations in occupied Kashmir — contradicting India’s narrative of normalized peace.
Pakistan noted that by branding Kashmiri youth as “Pakistan-backed terrorists”, India attempts to divert attention from the core issue of Kashmir being a UN-recognized disputed territory and from the people’s legitimate struggle for self-determination.
Military deployment in occupied Kashmir
Pakistan also rejected General Dwivedi’s reiteration of India’s doctrine that “talks and terror cannot go together”, saying New Delhi uses such rhetoric to avoid meaningful engagement while maintaining one of the world’s heaviest military deployments in IIOJK.
India’s “blood and water can’t flow together” mantra, Islamabad added, is a political tool to undermine cooperation on shared resources and obstruct avenues for peaceful diplomacy.
Commenting on the Indian Army Chief’s remarks on Operation Sindoor, Pakistan said portraying the operation as “just a trailer” and hinting at harsher future actions reflects dangerous adventurism that threatens regional stability.
Indian claims of “zero harm to civilians” remain unverifiable and contradict on-ground reports of civilian distress and fear accompanying Indian operations in the occupied territory.
Pakistan further expressed concern over India’s aggressive pursuit of multi-domain warfare technologies and its claims of “strategic confidence”, warning that such militarization fuels regional arms competition.
Islamabad maintains that its own modernization remains defensive in nature and urged India to match this approach by prioritizing arms control, dialogue and confidence-building.
Referring to General Dwivedi’s attempt to cite Manipur as a security success story, Pakistan said the comparison is irrelevant and a diversion from the ongoing human rights crisis in IIOJK.
Widespread communal violence and governance failures in several Indian states, Pakistan noted, expose the fragility of India’s internal security narrative.
Pakistan emphasized that India’s central claim — of 61% of killed individuals being Pakistani nationals — remains unsupported by any public evidence, independent verification or shared intelligence.
The absence of transparency, it added, indicates that such figures are crafted to justify harsh military actions and delegitimize Kashmiri resistance.
Pakistan called upon the international community, UN bodies, and global human rights organizations to scrutinize India’s assertions, push for impartial investigations, and work toward a peaceful political settlement grounded in UN resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
