This was a rare occasion when officials said they prepared a mountain of evidence to again support the charges against India.
Pakistan says India is sponsoring “terrorism” aimed at destabilizing the country and targeting its economic partnership with China, accusations by senior Pakistani officials made at a press conference.
Pakistan and India routinely accuse each other of attacking each other, but this was a rare occasion when Pakistani officials said they prepared a mountain of evidence to back up the accusations against their South Asian rival.
At a joint press conference on Saturday in the capital Islamabad, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, along with military spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar, said that Indian intelligence agents were operating from neighboring Afghanistan to plan attacks within from the Pakistani borders.
“India was allowing its land to be used against Pakistan for terrorism,” Qureshi said, adding that New Delhi was also planning attacks from “neighboring countries.”
Qureshi said Pakistan is sending its evidence to the United Nations demanding that India be censored, warning that “without international intervention it is difficult to guarantee peace in nuclear South Asia,” a region where both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons.
“We have irrefutable facts that we will present to the nation and the international community through this file,” said the minister.
The press conference comes a day after the Pakistani military said that five civilians and an army soldier were killed by shelling by Indian troops across the highly militarized border that separates the Pakistani and Indian sides of Kashmir.
The disputed border in the Himalayan region is a source of long-standing conflicts between the two powers.
Iftikhar, who heads the public relations and media bureau of the Pakistani armed forces, presented some of the evidence in the dossier purporting to show India’s involvement in the attacks inside Pakistan, including bank receipts showing funds and photos showing the alleged perpetrators of attacks inside the Indian consulate in Jalalabad. Afghanistan.
It also played an audio clip purporting to record a conversation between an Indian intelligence official and Allah Nazar, who is the top leader of the Baloch separatist fighters in southwestern Pakistan.
Iftikhar added that Indian intelligence agents were especially targeting Chinese development projects that have come with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
It alleged that the attackers who led a deadly assault on a luxury hotel in the southwestern city of Gwadar in October 2016 were in telephone contact with Indian intelligence handlers before and during the assault.
Chinese companies operate the key port facilities of the Pakistani city and it is considered a cornerstone of major commercial projects between Pakistan and China.
The military spokesperson also accused India of sponsoring banned organizations, including UN-designated “terrorist” groups such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Allah Nazar’s Baloch Liberation Army.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, Great Hewad, said on Saturday that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan plans to visit Afghanistan next week.
The Foreign Ministry said this will be Khan’s first visit to Kabul as Prime Minister of Pakistan. It was not mentioned whether he would raise Pakistan’s accusations of Indian interference.
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