The Pakistan Army on Friday accused India of 25 violations of the Line of Control (LoC) during the past year and threatened a quick response if Indian forces attack.
Army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry levelled these accusations at an year-end press conference, while not offering details to substantiate the charges.
The spokesman said security forces killed at least 925 terrorists in 2024 and lost 383 of its own men in nearly 60,000 operations.
The Pakistan military is battling insurgency mostly in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
The general claimed that India committed 25 LoC violations and also carried out several 'false flag operations'.
It usually refers to fake military action so that the blame falls on the other side.
The spokesman alleged that such operations were always declared through fake social media accounts with RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), India's foreign intelligence agency.
"The Pakistan Army has the ability to present a crushing response to any Indian aggression," he said.
"Indian forces are employing barbaric tactics to suppress independence movements," he alleged apparently referring mainly to Jammu and Kashmir.
India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism in the territory.
The Pakistan Army spokesman also accused the Indian government of targeting minorities, including Sikhs, within its borders and abroad.
Chaudhry said that the number of terrorists killed by the country's security forces in 2024 was the highest in the last five years.
He said daily 170 operations are conducted which helped in foiling several attempts by terrorists. In these operations, he said a huge cache of arms and weapons was also recovered.
Chaudhry said 73 "high-value targets" were also killed including 27 Afghan nationals while another 14 high-value terrorists surrendered to the authorities.
The spokesman accused the Afghan Taliban regime of patronizing militants, particularly those of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
He called upon the Afghan authorities to address the issue by disallowing the rebels the use of their soil.
The Afghan soil is being used by TTP terrorists. The terrorists' hideouts in Afghanistan are where the perpetrators of terror acts in Pakistan go," he said.
Chaudhry said that illegal border crossing has decreased owing to a one-document regime instituted for those crossing from Afghanistan.
He said the operation against illegal Afghanis had been in process and up till now 8,15,000 of them had been sent out of the country since September 2023.
Chaudhry also said talks were being held with Afghanistan bilaterally as well as through "international friends".
He indirectly blamed jailed former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan for the latest wave of militancy.
"We are paying the price for the policy of talks with rebels and resettlement," he said.
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