Pakistan Says India Distracts Its Military From Terror Fight
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Indian Punjab policemen on patrol at a sugar cane field near the Indian-Pakistan border on Oct. 3.
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Pakistan’s army said elevated tensions with India after violence in the disputed Kashmir region is distracting the country from battling terrorist groups inside its own borders during a crucial stage of its military campaign.
“There is hypocrisy that is visible on one side: They keep on saying publicly that the region needs to be free of terrorism,” Asim Bajwa, the army’s top spokesman, said in an interview on Tuesday in the northern military garrison city of Rawalpindi. “We are at a very critical stage of fighting this war of terror and eliminating terrorism from our soil forever, but they are escalating on the eastern border.”