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PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi targets India again over Pahalgam attack: ‘Will pay heavy price for choosing path of destruction'

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who also happens to be the country's Interior Minister, made the statement during his meeting with Federal Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Wednesday in which they discussed the ongoing tensions between the two neighbors. read more Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi has targeted India once again in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, stating that they will have to 'pay a heavy price' and that they are headed on a 'path of destruction'. Naqvi, who has been Pakistan's Interior Minister since March last year, made the statement during his meeting with Federal Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Wednesday, according to Pakistan news portal 24News Digital. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Naqvi had met Siddiqui to discuss the ongoing tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours following the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, in which 26 people were killed, a majority of whom were summer tourists. India has blamed Pakistan for the attack given the latter's long history of harbouring terror groups on its soil and allegedly promoting cross-border terrorism. Pakistan will give befitting response to acts of aggression: Naqvi The 46-year-old brief the chairman of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement party about the decisions of the National Security Committee meeting in their meeting on Wednesday, and added that Pakistan's citizens and army were united against India and that they will be able to give a befitting reply to any acts of aggression by New Delhi. Naqvi, who had taken over as PCB chief in February last year following Zaka Ashraf's resignation, had recently slammed the Narendra Modi-led Indian government for the non-military measures taken against Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack – the deadliest terror attack involving civilians on Indian soil since the 26/11 attacks in 2008. 'Pakistan's economic stability is intolerable for India. The world must see how the country that claims to be the largest democracy is using terrorism to achieve its objectives,' Naqvi was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune in a press conference in Lahore on Sunday. Since the attack, India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty and closed the Attari-Wagah checkpost in Punjab besides suspending visas for all Pakistani nationals. The Indian government has also blocked several YouTube channels, including that of iconic cricketer Shoaib Akhtar, in the aftermath of the attack.