Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said that the only way to compel Pakistan to cease its sponsorship of terrorism is to increase pressure from the international community.
“The only way forward now is that the pressure of the world on that country must increase,” Abdullah told news agency ANI. “This is not the path to peace. This is the path to destruction. Stop it now.”
Abdullah’s remarks come a day after a deadly ambush in Kathua’s Badnota area, where five soldiers were killed and five injured by heavily-armed terrorists. A large-scale search operation is underway to hunt down those responsible for the attack.
During the interview, Abdullah condemned Pakistan’s belief that infiltrating terrorists into India could bring about change.
“They are wrong. They will fail… I am afraid that our anger will increase so much after this that we might resort to aggression and retaliation. They have already destroyed their country, and now a war will only further destroy it,” he asserted.