Dossier on India-funded terrorism presented
islamabad — Two senior government officials on Saturday said that India was sponsoring terrorism aimed at destabilising Pakistan and targeting Islamabad’s economic partnership with China.
In a rare move, the officials also unveiled a dossier containing “irrefutable evidence” of India’s sponsorship of terrorism in the country.
In a joint Press conference in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, along with military spokesman Maj-Gen Babar Iftikhar, said that Indian intelligence agents were operating out of Afghanistan to plan attacks within Pakistani borders.
“India was allowing its land to be used against Pakistan for terrorism,” said Qureshi, adding that New Delhi was also planning attacks from “neighbouring countries”. Qureshi said Pakistan is sending its evidence to the United Nations demanding India be censured, warning that “without international intervention it is difficult to guarantee peace in nuclear South Asia”.
“We have irrefutable facts that we will present before the nation and international community through this dossier,” the minister added.
He warned that India planned to “upscale terrorist activities in Pakistan” in the coming months, revealing that there had been at least four meetings between Indian intelligence officials and militant factions in which they had decided to target big cities, including Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar.
“We have irrefutable evidence that RAW and DIA — their intel agencies — are financing terrorism in Pakistan and training terrorists, harbouring them and taking practical steps to promote terrorism,” he added.
Iftikhar presented some of the dossier’s evidence purporting to show India’s involvement in attacks within Pakistan, including bank receipts showing funding and photos showing alleged perpetrators of attacks inside the Indian consulate in
Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He also played an audio clip purporting to record a conversation between an Indian intelligence official and Allah Nazar, who is the top leader of Baloch militants .
Maj-Gen Iftikhar added that Indian intelligence agents were especially targeting Chinese development projects that have come with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
He alleged that the attackers who led a deadly assault on a luxury hotel in Gwadar in May 2019, were in telephone contact with Indian intelligence handlers before and during the assault.
Chinese companies operate the city’s key port facilities and it is considered a keystone of major Pakistani-Chinese trade projects.
The spokesman also accused India of sponsoring banned organisations including UN-designated terrorist groups Tehreek-eTaleban Pakistan, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, and Allah Nazar’s Baloch Liberation Army. —
India was allowing its land to be used against Pakistan for terrorism. We have irrefutable facts that we will present before the nation and international community through this dossier Shah Mahmood Qureshi Foreign Minister