ISLAMABAD: Pakistan categorically rejected the Indian Ministry of External Affairs' denial of the 'irrefutable evidence' provided on its state sponsorship of terrorism, saying New Delhi's sinister design to subvert CPEC, and public statements on 'teaching Pakistan' a lesson through use of terrorism, constitute further incriminating evidence.
"Fully exposed, India has typically resorted to sophistry, obfuscation and re-fabrication. Bland denials and regurgitation of old litany of charges, however, will not change facts," Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said, while reacting to his Indian counterpart Anurag Srivastava's remarks over the dossier carrying 'irrefutable evidence' of India's state sponsoring of terrorism in the country.
Chaudhri said that the dossier presented by Pakistan extensively documents India's active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities against Pakistan.
"It is the collective responsibility of the world community to hold India to account and take practical steps to proceed against the Indian nationals involved in patronage of terrorist entities," he added.
Since 2001, he pointed out that Pakistan has faced more than 19,000 terrorist attacks on its soil and suffered 83,000 causalities. The direct economic losses have been upward of US $126 billion, he said.
As a result of India's sponsorship of terrorism, from across our borders, Pakistan continues to suffer immensely, he added.
He added that India had mischievously masqueraded as a 'victim' of terrorism and sought to mislead the international community by hypocritically levelling terrorism-related allegations against Pakistan.
"It has also conducted false flag operations in IIOJK and inside India to malign Pakistan. That façade has now been removed and the world can see the real face of India - one blackened by its decades-long state-terrorism in IIOJK and state-sponsored terrorism and destabilisation efforts in Pakistan," the spokesperson said.
He said that the most familiar and undeniable face of India's state-sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan was Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, caught red-handed in March 2016.
His complicity in subversion, sabotage and terrorism in Pakistan is part of the incontrovertible evidence against India, he added.
"The world is also familiar with 'saffron terror' orchestrated and unleashed by the RSS-BJP zealots against Muslims in India and against Pakistan," he said.
He added that the masterminds of Mecca Masjid, Ajmer Dargah, and Samjhota Express terrorist cases, like Swami Aseemanand, have been granted full state protection and acquitted in complete travesty of justice after having confessed to India's National Investigation Agency (NIA).
He added that the open threats to Pakistan by Indian civilian and military leaders, India's sinister design to subvert China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and public statements by noted Indian politicians and senior security officials on 'teaching Pakistan' a lesson through use of terrorism constitute further incriminating evidence.
He stated that the presence of ISIL and AQIS [al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent] in India as highlighted in recent UN reports indicated that India was emerging as a hotbed of UN-designated international terrorist organisations and posing a great risk to the region.
He added that the recent revelations by FINCEN [Financial Crimes Enforcement Network] files illustrated how India used its financial system for money laundering and other illegal activities such as terrorism financing - brazenly and with impunity.
He said that the use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy by India made it culpable under international law, UN sanctions regime, and international counter-terrorism conventions.
"We also expect the UN counter-terrorism bodies to proceed on the basis of concrete evidence provided by Pakistan and urge India to renounce use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy," he said, adding that the UN must also play its part in dismantling of the Indian terrorist infrastructure, details of which had been provided in the dossier.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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