Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and
Director-General ISPR Maj-Gen Babar Iftikhar, in a joint media conference, on Saturday categorically stated that India was sabotaging the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and is supporting terrorism in Pakistan.
They unveiled a dossier containing “irrefutable evidence” of India’s sponsorship of terrorism in the country and called on the international community to take notice and make efforts for peace and stability in South Asia.
The country’s top diplomat and the military spokesperson presented a dossier detailing India’s involvement in terror attacks in Pakistan during the media conference. Multiple video clips and audio clips, along with documents, were presented during the media conference of Indian handlers and terrorists communicating with each other and Indian intelligence handlers passing on instructions to terrorists in Pakistan.
“Today we have irrefutable facts that we will present before the nation and international community through this dossier.”
“You can see a pattern of constant ceasefire violations,” said the foreign minister, adding that the dossier contains many details and some of them will be used at the “time of need”.
He said while Pakistan was combatting terrorism on its soil, India was using its soil to surround Pakistan “in a web of terrorism”. “India cannot tolerate Pakistan’s success against terrorism.”
The foreign minister said during recent months, India has tried its best to fan terrorism across Pakistan. “Indian intelligence agencies are today supporting terrorist groups defeated and outlawed by Pakistan.”
He added that the country has information and evidence of India promoting terrorism in Pakistan and “has developed a plan to destabilise Pakistan”. Qureshi warned that in the coming months, there will be an upsurge in terrorist activities in Pakistan and the focus will be on the major urban centres of the country. “We have irrefutable evidence,” said the foreign minister.
He named two Indian intelligence agencies, RAW and DIA, which are financing, training and harbouring terrorists. “The objective is state terrorism and instability in Pakistan.”The military spokesperson said the recent upsurge in violence in Pakistan is a direct consequence of New Delhi’s “intensified engagements with all brands of terrorists, sub-nationalists and dissident’s operating against Pakistan”. “After the unification of TTP with its breakaway factions (JuA and HuA) in August 2020, India is endeavouring to establish a consortium of TTP with proscribed dissident organisations of Balochistan (BLA, BLF and BRA) which are already united under the banner of BRAS (Baloch Raaji Aajoie Sangar) constituted in 2018.
Elaborating further, Maj Gen Iftikhar said an Indian intelligence officer, Colonel Rajesh, employed at Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, is the master planner and a letter reveals that he has held four meetings with commanders of these terror outfits “to synergize their efforts and upscale terrorist activities in metropolitan cities in November and December 2020”.
He further said that India is trying to establish a linkage between Pakistan and the militant Islamic State by creating ‘Daesh-e-Pakistan’.
“Recently, 30 Indian Daesh militants were relocated from India to various camps along Pakistan-Afghanistan border by two Indian intelligence agencies operatives. These militants were handed over to Daesh Commander Shiekh Abdul Rahim alias Abdul Rehman Muslim Dost.”
“Uncontrivable evidence reveals that Indian embassies and consulates operating along Pakistan’s borders have become a hub of terror sponsorship against Pakistan,” said the military spokesperson.
The military spokesperson said Indian ambassadors to Afghanistan have regularly supervised various terrorist activities. “In one such instance, Indian ambassador to Afghanistan and Indian consular in Jalalabad had detailed discussions with collaborators to provide financial support to TTP and dissident Baloch elements.”
For sabotaging CPEC, India raised a militia of 700 militants to conduct terror activities in Balochistan, said Maj Gen Iftikhar. “A commission comprising 24 members was created which included 10 RAW operatives. $60 million dollars were dedicated for this force.”
He added that the Indian mission in Afghanistan has paid handsome amounts to sub-nationalists under the garb of humanitarian assistance and projects. The spokesperson also gave details of the transactions for such activities.
Iftikhar further said that India’s RAW also funded Altaf Hussain, as revealed by the confessional statement of Sarfraz Merchant and Tariq Mir, through two Indian companies.
“India has also been providing weapons and ammunition to Altaf Hussain Group; weapons worth $0.62 million were provided to Altaf Hussain Group on one such occasion. Confessional statement of Ajmal Pahari validates it.”
DG ISPR added that Pahari had confessed that India had established four training camps for the group’s militants in India, with training for militants lasting between 15 days to four months and “it was confirmed that 40 AHG terrorists had received training at India who used to travel to New Delhi through a third country”.
Besides funding terrorists and their activities in Pakistan, India also provided direct weapon and equipment support to terrorists in Pakistan.
“Recently, a RAW sponsored network of six terrorists has been unearthed which has linkages with an attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange and is also involved in the delivery of suicide jackets to various terrorist groups operating in Pakistan besides undertaking terrorist activities.”
Maj Gen Iftikhar added that the network, comprising two RAW frontmen and four Afghan terrorists, has been exposed and is also involved in target killing of Ulema, police officials and notables.
Giving details of the amounts paid to terrorists for carrying out attacks in Pakistan, Maj Gen Iftikhar said Rs10 million was paid by RAW for a suicide attack or a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device and Rs1 million for an IED attack and targetted assassination. “Security forces have also intercepted a huge cache of suicide jackets, IEDs, explosives, weapons & ammunition.”
He further added that there is evidence of multi-purpose base camps being utilised by India for training, harbouring and launching of terrorist attacks against Pakistan.
“Indian intelligence agencies are managing 87 such terrorists’ camps out of which 66 are located in Afghanistan whereas 21 are located in India.” He gave the example of the attack on PC Gwadar and said an officer of RAW, Anurag Singh, planned the attack and $0.5 million dollars were allocated by Indian intelligence for the attack.
“The attack was masterminded by Dr Allah Nazar and Aslam Achoo. Both the individuals have travelled to India on fake Afghan passports. Aslam Achoo remained admitted in Indian hospital while he travelled under the cover name of Abdul Hamid. His passport having double entry visa stamped by India.”
Nazar had travelled to India on fake documents under the cover name of Haji Nabi and is the main conduit between various terrorist groups in Balochistan and RAW handlers, said the spokesperson.
Shifting focus to New Delhi’s subversive designs in GB, DG ISPR said a meeting was held by India’s Ministry of Home Affairs to “deliberate upon the methodology to trigger negative reactions” in regards to the provisional provincial status of the region.
Maj Gen Iftikhar said the salient features of the meeting were to subvert the perceived changes in the status of the region. “After Nov 20, hostile elements will be mobilized to undertake various subversive operations in Kashmir and GB.”
He said New Delhi’s intelligence apparatus aims to exploit the prevalent environment by staging terrorist attacks on large public gatherings and will attempt to assassinate a mainstream or sub-nationalist leader or a religious figure in Azad Kashmir or GB to arouse public anger.
In reference to FATF, Maj Gen Iftikhar said Islamabad remains firmly committed to the forum and “our achievements for fulfilling the technical obligations remain unparalleled”.
“India has consistently been endeavouring to politicize the forum for economic coercion of Pakistan.
Tangible evidence reflects that Indian foreign missions in FATF member countries have always been extensively lobbying with hosts prior to FATF meetings to undermine Pakistan’s achievements and create conditions for our grey/ blacklisting,” the military spokesperson.
He said India needs to be scrutinised at the FATF platform in light of the evidence presented by Pakistan as the recent revelations made by United States’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to reveal “Indian terror financing and money laundering regimes”.
Gen Iftikhar said Pakistan had received “incontrovertible evidence” that Indian embassies and consulates along the Pak-Afghan border were functioning as “hub of terror sponsorship against Pakistan”.
He went on to list Indian officials and embassies involved in sponsorship of terrorism, saying that “[they] have been regularly supervising various terrorist activities.”
“In one such instance, Indian ambassador to Afghanistan and Indian consular in Jalalabad had detailed discussions with collaborators to provide financial support to TTP and dissident Baloch elements.”
He also gave details of transactions between the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing and terrorists. “RAW made two transactions to its cut-out to promote terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Both transactions were made through Indian banks.
“[In the first one,] $28,000 was transferred by Punjab Bank in India [while] the second transaction of $55,851 was made by an Indian national Manmeet from an Indian bank in New Delhi, which was received by Afghanistan International Bank. On another occasion, RAW while using the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan held a number of meetings with TTP Commanders.” Gen Iftikhar also showed a letter in Dari which stated that India paid $820,000 to TTP leadership through its collaborators.
“Tangible evidence indicates that RAW is involved in planting of IEDs in AJK to target civilians and military personnel,” said the DG ISPR. “Since January 2016, 60 IEDs have been planted out of which 38 have exploded killing 13 civilians and 46 military personnel. While 22 were neutralised.”
Regarding GB, Gen Iftikhar said Indian Ministry of Home Affairs held a meeting to deliberate methodology to trigger negative reactions to Pakistan granting provisional provincial status to GB. He said that India will mobilise “hostile elements” to undertake various subversive operations in Kashmir and GB after November 20.
