WASHINGTON:  , Pakistan’s adviser to the US said on Thursday ( May 8 ) that , India , and , Pakistan , have had emails at the level of their individual National Security Councils, when asked if the nuclear-armed Asian neighbours had any continued ranges of talk.
The adviser, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, made the comments in an interview with CNN in which he also said the obligation to de-escalate tensions between the two nations lay with , India , after two weeks of conflicts.
” I think there have been call at the level of NSCs, but then this increase, both in terms of the activities that have been taken and in terms of language that is coming out, has to stop”, Sheikh said in the discussion without giving more information about the connections.
” Today the responsibility for de-escalation is on , India, but there are constraints on restriction.  , Pakistan , reserves the right to listen up. There is enough force from our public opinion on the state to respond”, he added.
Many international rights, including the US, have urged New Delhi and Islamabad to de-escalate conflicts and keep lines of communication open. Washington has called for strong speech.
On Thursday,  , Pakistan , and , India , accused each other , of launching drone strikes, and Islamabad’s defence secretary said more retaliation was “increasingly certain”, on the , next day of significant clashes , between the nuclear-armed neighborhood. Two days of fighting have killed almost four hundred people.
The , latest escalation , in the decades-old , India-Pakistan , rivalry , began on Apr 22 when militants killed 26 people in , India-administered Kashmir in an assault that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad, which denied the accusations and called for a , natural probe.