New Delhi confronts Pak convoy with cross-border terror proof
New Delhi : Adding to the chill in the India-Pakistan relations, foreign secretary S Jaishankar summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit to his South block office and lodged a strong protest over the issue of cross-border terrorism with a specific reference to LeT terrorist and Pakistani national Bahadur Ali, who was captured recently in North Kashmir during an encounter.
Foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said: Jaishankar called in the Pakistan envoy and issued a strong demarche on continuing cross border terrorism from Pakistan. The demarche made specific reference to LeT terrorist and Pak national Bahadur Ali who was apprehended recently.”
“Bahadur Ali has confessed to our authorities that after training in Lashkar-e-Toiba camps, he was infiltrated into India. He was thereafter in touch with an ”operations room” of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India,” he said.
He was arrested on July 25, 2016 together with weapons (AK-47 rifle, live rounds, grenades, grenade launcher, etc.) as also sophisticated communication equipment and other material of Pakistani/international origin. He has confessed to Indian authorities that after training in Lashkar-e-Toiba camps, he was infiltrated into India. He was thereafter in touch with an ”operations room” of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India.
This action has come a day after 70 persons were killed in a terror attack in Quetta and Balochistan chief minister Sanaullah Zehri blamed the Indian intelligence agency RAW for it. India-Pakistan relations have been in cold storage after Pakistan and its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made provocative statements on the Kashmir situation in wake of Burhan Wani”s killing on July 8. The chill in bilateral relations was on full display during Home Minister Rajnath Singh”s visit to Islamabad for a SAARC ministerial meet last week when he and his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan not only avoided a proper handshake but Singh also left without attending the lunch hosted by Khan.
SHARIF AT IT AGAIN
Islamabad: Needling India yet again, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said he was “obliged” to become the voice of the “oppressed” people of Kashmir and would “leave no stone unturned” to make the world understand the “plight” of the people in the Valley.
Sharif also shot off letters to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, urging efforts to end the “persistent and egregious violation of the basic human rights” of the Kashmiri people and also to implement UN Security Council resolutions, a Foreign Office statement said.
