'india Needed To Take Counter-terrorism Actions, War Is Not Our Choice': Nsa Ajit Doval Tells China's Wang Yi

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said pinch National Security Advisor Ajit Doval connected Saturday, urging restraint and speech betwixt India and Pakistan amid renewed cross-border tensions. The speech came soon aft a ceasefire statement betwixt New Delhi and Islamabad collapsed wrong hours of being announced, pinch Pakistan resuming artillery shelling and drone activity on nan International Border and Line of Control.

During nan call, Doval stated that nan Pahalgam violent onslaught had caused important casualties among Indian personnel, and that India needed to return counter-terrorism actions. He emphasised "that warfare is not India's choice" and "does not service nan interests of immoderate party". "Both India and Pakistan are committed to maintaining nan ceasefire and dream for nan early restoration of location bid and stability." 

Wang Yi told Doval that “India and Pakistan are neighboring countries that cannot beryllium relocated, and some are besides neighbors of China,” adding that bid and stableness successful Asia should beryllium “cherished.” He welcomed Doval’s connection that “war is not India’s prime and does not service nan interests of immoderate party.”

The Chinese curate besides condemned nan Pahalgam violent attack, which near important Indian casualties. He reiterated China's guidance to coercion successful each forms and said that “given nan existent analyzable and volatile world situation, bid and stableness successful Asia are hard-won and should beryllium safeguarded.”

Wang Yi expressed dream that some countries would “remain calm and workout restraint, resoluteness differences done speech and consultation, and debar further escalation.” He added that China supports a broad and lasting ceasefire, achieved done negotiation, which serves nan broader liking of some nations and nan world community.

Earlier nan aforesaid day, Wang Yi besides held a telephone pinch Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, successful which he said that China would proceed to support Pakistan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and nationalist independence. 

This negotiated outreach followed a melodramatic breakdown successful nan ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, who claimed nan truce was nan result of US-mediated talks. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a “US-brokered ceasefire”, praising Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif for their “wisdom, prudence, and statesmanship successful choosing nan way of peace.”

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said nan Directors General of Military Operations of some nations had agreed by telephone to a halt successful each firing and subject operations crossed land, air, and oversea from 5:00 PM Saturday. However, hours later, Misri said that an knowing was reached this evening betwixt nan DGMOs of India and Pakistan to extremity nan subject action that was going connected for nan past fewer days. 

"For nan past fewer hours, this knowing is being violated by Pakistan. The Indian Army is retaliating and dealing pinch this separator intrusion. This intrusion is highly condemnable and Pakistan is responsible for it. We judge that Pakistan should understand this business decently and return due action instantly to extremity this intrusion."

Published on: May 10, 2025 11:16 PM IST