India continues to aid, abet terrorism in Pakistan: FO
Islamabad: Pakistan has expressed severe disappointment at Indian government’s callousness towards the plight of the families of the Pakistani and Indian nationals, who await justice even after the passage of nineteen years since Samjhauta Express terrorist attack.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tahir Andrabi, stated this during his weekly media briefing in Islamabad today.
He said this callous response confirms India’s role as an official and political accomplice in the heinous terrorist attack carried out on its soil against innocent Pakistani and other civilians.
He said the government of Pakistan also condemns the shameless acquittal and exoneration of all four perpetrators, including Swami Aseemanand, who publicly confessed being the mastermind of Samjhauta Express terrorist attack, Lt Colonel Purohit, a serving Indian Army officer and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a former BJP member of the assembly.
The Foreign Office Spokesperson also expressed alarm that the Hindutva extremism and saffron terror that had motivated this inhumane attack nineteen years ago has intensified manifold under the current regime in India.
Tahir Andrabi said the government of Pakistan demands a fair trial in which the perpetrators and abettors of Samjhauta Express terrorist attack be brought to justice.
The Spokesperson said the families of innocent Pakistani nationals, mercilessly killed at the hands of the Hindutva-motivated extremists, deserve justice.
He said India’s own systemic exoneration of the perpetrators of Samjhauta Express terrorist attack is yet another example of Indian duplicity and state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan.
Replying to another question about a recent statement of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs regarding Pakistani strikes against terrorists’ sanctuaries and camps in Afghanistan, the Spokesperson completely rejected it.
He said the statement vindicates our stance that India continues to aid and abet terrorism in Pakistan through its support for BLA, Fitna-al-Hindustan, and other terrorist organizations in the region.
He said Pakistan possesses concrete evidence of India’s involvement in sponsoring and abetting terrorism.
Tahir Andrabi said this recent statement of Indian Ministry of External Affairs and also the statement made after the terrorist attacks in Balochistan, reinforce and provide an additional certain circumstantial evidence of India’s complicity in promoting terrorism in Pakistan. KMS—20A
