ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office today (Saturday) categorically rejected the ‘absurd remarks’ by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denying India’s involvement in the recent Dasu terror attack.
“Fully exposed, India typically resorts to sophistry, obfuscation and re-fabrication. Bland denials and regurgitation of a false narrative, however, will not change facts,” FO spokesperson said in a press release.
The spokesperson said Islamabad had repeatedly presented irrefutable evidence of India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan.
“Pakistan had presented a detailed dossier to the international community last year. Recently, it also presented evidence on India’s involvement in the Lahore attack,” the spokesman added.
He further said, “The most familiar and undeniable face of India’s state-sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan was commander Kulbhushan Jadhav — caught red-handed in March 2016.”
“We reiterate our call on India to abjure the use of state-terrorism as an instrument of policy. Pakistan will continue to resolutely oppose Indian machinations imperiling regional peace and security,” the spokesperson concluded.
On July 14, a bus carrying Chinese nationals and accompanying Pakistani staff working on the Dasu hydropower project, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohistan district, fell into a ravine following an explosion.
Although the incident was initially reported by the Foreign Office as “a mechanical failure resulting in leakage of gas that caused a blast”, a probe revealed that it was an act of terrorism involving the nexus between India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS).
