Evidence proves India financing terrorism inside Pakistan: FO

Author: By Tarique Siyal

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has said that there is “open evidence” of India’s involvement in subversive activities in Pakistan.

“India is financing terrorism in Pakistan,” Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakariya told a weekly media briefing, while commenting on the recent statement of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which he said that one single nation was spreading terrorism in South Asia.

Nafees Zakariya said that India was in fact that single nation “involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan”. The confessional statement made by an officer of the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Kalbhushan Yadav, had made it clear which country was in fact spreading terrorism, the spokesman said.

In response to a question, Zakaria said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would raise the issue of Kalbhushan Yadav at the upcoming UN General Assembly session, adding that the issue of “Indian involvement will definitely be highlighted”.

“The issue will be raised because it has direct links with incidents of terrorism in Pakistan.”

Zakaria rejected Indian assertion that the UN resolutions on Kashmir were irrelevant. India was violating the UN charter by adopting this stance, he said. He said the world acknowledges Pakistan’s sacrifices in – and contribution to – the war against terrorism.

In response to a question, Zakaria said that Pakistan was deeply saddened over the execution of prominent leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh, Mir Quasem Ali – for the alleged crimes committed before December 1971 – through a flawed judicial process.

He said that the government of Bangladesh should uphold its commitment, as per the Tripartite Agreement of 1974, wherein it “decided not to proceed with the trials as an act of clemency”.