Islamabad has strongly rejected the allegations made by India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, who tried to link Pakistan to the recent arrests made inside India. Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the claims were baseless and another chapter in India’s ongoing propaganda campaign against Pakistan.
Such narratives are routinely deployed by New Delhi to divert attention away from its own domestic security challenges and to score narrow political points at home, the spokesperson said. He accused India of running an internal repressive regime, citing what he described as the systematic oppression of minorities and the stifling of dissent, while simultaneously exporting instability abroad through alleged support for terrorism. Andrabi said Pakistan has time and again provided evidence of India’s involvement in terrorism and subversive activities on its soil and the international community should not be misled by baseless Indian claims. He cited the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an active duty Indian naval officer convicted in Pakistan, as what he termed irrefutable evidence of direct Indian involvement in espionage and terrorism inside the country.
The Foreign Office called upon the international community to dismiss India’s claims and instead hold New Delhi responsible for what it termed continued state-sponsored terrorism in the region.
