“We did not strike national infrastructure, and we made it abundantly clear that the object of this exercise was clearly to avoid military escalation — a fact actually acknowledged in a left handed way, of course, by the Pakistani side in terms of their own official statements which said that the airspace hadn’t been violated,” he added.”The logical solution would be, as we’ve said repeatedly, for Pakistan to take the opportunity of an off ramp, which we have made abundantly clear, including this morning, that if Pakistan stops attacking our military facilities, the matter ends there, but it is for them to decide,” he said.The High Commissioner was also pressed on media reports around Indian jets being allegedly shot down, claims that remain unsubstantiated.”If it satisfies Pakistan’s ego to say that they’ve done something, they could have used that as an off-ramp to move on. But clearly they chose not to and they’ve continued to escalate the matter,” he added.
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