New Delhi planning attack on Islamabad to distract from China row: Pak FM's latest bizarre claim

Pakistan’s foreign minister has "warned" neighbouring India to refrain from launching any attacks on his country, saying that Islamabad would respond with full force if New Delhi embarks on “any misadventure.”

Shah Mahmood Qureshi claimed that India was plotting an attack on Pakistan, allegedly to divert attention from a recent deadly clash between India and China in a disputed area of the Himalayas that killed at least 20 Indian soldiers.

Chinese and Indian military commanders have meanwhile agreed to disengage their forces in the disputed area.

Add WION as a Preferred Source

Qureshi alleged that India, “after being beaten and embarrassed” by China in the Himalayan incident was trying to find an excuse for an operation against Pakistan.

He, in his comments broadcast by Geo TV, offered no evidence for his allegations.

On Tuesday, Qureshi condemned India’s move ordering Pakistan’s diplomatic mission in New Delhi to reduce its staff by half within a week. The Indian foreign ministry said it would do the same in Islamabad after two Indian Embassy employees were seized at gunpoint in Pakistan.

Earlier, Pakistani authorities had said that two people, identified as drivers for the Indian High Commission, were arrested when they hit a pedestrian and tried to flee. They said police searched the vehicle and found counterfeit currency inside.

The two were released to the high commission and were transported to the border.

Pakistani and Indian forces have been on maximum alert since last year's airstrike by New Delhi -- in response to the Pulwama terror attack.