Pak claims to have arrested 3 Indian intel agents in PoK
:The law-enforcement authorities of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), known as Azad Kashmir in the neighbouring country, claimed to have arrested three Indian intelligence agents for alleged antistate activities on Friday.
Pakistani daily Dawn reported that the charges levelled against the three “Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) recruits” included bombing a police station in the region.
PoK police identified the suspects as Mohammad Khalil, Imtiaz and Rashid, all residents of Taroti village in Abbaspur. The trio was produced before mediapersons at a briefing by senior police officers in Rawalkot, their faces covered with masks.
Poonch deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Sajid Imran was quoted as saying that Khalil, the main suspect, had come into contact with RAW officials while visiting his relatives at Bandi Chechian village in India-held Kashmir in November 2014.
PANAJI: Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday that Pakistan was playing a “dangerous game” in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to death in the neighbouring country on charges of spying.
“Pakistan should understand that if India starts retaliating, then it does not have the power to fight back, whatever they may project themselves to be,” the Goa chief minister told Doordarshan in an interview.
“But, we want peace. We do not want provocation. So they should send Jadhav back,” he said. “First of all, they have abducted him. He was not in Pakistan. He was in Iran. Iran has said the Taliban kidnapped him and took him to Pakistan. Pakistan has a habit of doing something or other.”
DID NOT QUIT OVER J&K
Chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday denied reports that he quit as defence minister due to “pressure” over the Kashmir issue, but Opposition lashed out at the leader, accusing him of being “anti-national” and a “bhagoda. AICC secretary Girish Chodankar said the only thing Parrikar had learnt from Pakistan, during his stint as defence minister, was staging coups, referring to the ‘coup’ staged by the BJP in Goa last month.