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India has been using its territory in Afghanistan to support terrorist activities within the country, a claim that India has directly denied after Pakistan formally raised the charge.
Last Saturday night, the Pakistani foreign minister and the army spokesman presented a series of documents at a joint press conference, saying they would present the evidence against India to the United Nations and the international community.
In response, India is not only refuting the accusation, India’s foreign minister has also blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism.
The Afghan government in Kabul has already roundly denied Pakistan’s allegations.
In fact, be it the terrorist attack in Mumbai a decade ago or the recent attack on a military target in Uri or Pulwama, India has so far blamed the Pakistan intelligence agency ISI and several Pakistan-based organizations for all of this. .
But last Saturday night, Pakistan also traveled that path for the first time.
In an hour-long press conference, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief of Staff Major General Babar Iftikhar claimed that India was behind all the recent militant attacks from Baluchistan to Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa or Gilgit-Baltistan.
They have also submitted a dossier in support of this claim.
“India has been using its territory for activities against Pakistan for so long, but now it is using it wherever it can find space, including in and around Afghanistan,” Qureshi told a news conference.
“The irrefutable evidence that we have found of the collusion between India’s RAW and intelligence officials will now draw the attention of the international community.”
Babar Iftikhar, director general of Pakistan’s ISPR, claimed that India was paying attackers 1 million rupees for every suicide attack in his country.
At the same time, the Indian embassies in Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad are assisting various extremist groups. Some audio files of conversations between RAW agents were also played.
“India has paid the leadership of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) আট 8.5 million to carry out attacks inside Pakistan,” said Major General Iftikhar, citing a copy of a letter written in Dari to Afghanistan.
“They have established a 700-member militia in Baluchistan to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.”
“A commission of 24 people has been set up to assist extremist activities, 10 of whom are RAW spies and has been allocated a budget of £ 60 million.”
In a counter-statement within 24 hours, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said Pakistan’s remarks were nothing more than a “failed attempt to spread anti-India propaganda.”
He further added that no one in the world would believe all these “unfounded and imaginary accusations”, adding that Pakistan was doing all this to divert attention from the economic and political failures within the country.
The Afghan Foreign Ministry has already denied all the accusations made by Pakistan.
Later on Monday, Indian Foreign Minister S Jayashankar in his “Deccan Dialogue” speech said that everyone knows who is really responsible for cross-border terrorism with the help of the state.
Jayashankar said, “An example of this is on our doorstep, and the whole world is aware of its nature today.”
“We are constantly trying to focus on how this is being done through terrorist financing, radicalization or cyber recruitment.”
Against this backdrop of accusations, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is heading to Afghanistan this week, his first visit to Kabul since taking office two years ago.
Meanwhile, tensions between India and Pakistan have reached new highs amid heavy shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir since Friday.
Members of the army and civilians were killed in the bombing, and both sides summoned top diplomats from the other side in Delhi and Islamabad to protest.
Source: BBC
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