The Foreign Office (FO) said the Indian government had escalated its anti-Pakistan campaign — marked by false narratives, concocted evidence, and orchestration of false flag operations — after Islamabad made public a dossier containing “irrefutable proof” of Indian sponsorship of terrorism in the country.
The statement was issued in response to media queries regarding the reported briefing to a group of foreign envoys at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on the so-called attempted terrorist attack in Nagrota district in occupied Kashmir, FO spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri said.
A day earlier, India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla had briefed a select group of foreign envoys about Pakistan’s alleged role in the incident that occurred on November 19, a local news channel reported.”The purported briefing by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs is yet another attempt to mischievously implicate Pakistan in some alleged planned attack occupied Kashmir,” the FO spokesman said.
“The completely baseless and unsubstantiated Indian allegations are nothing, but a reflection of desperate efforts on India’s part to salvage its false terrorism narrative against Islamabad; and to divert international attention from its state terrorism in the occupied valley; and state-sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan.
“Pakistan has been consistently sensitizing the international community regarding the possibility of India undertaking a false flag operation with the intention to implicate Pakistan and jeopardizing regional peace and security. We forewarn the world community once again.”
The spokesman added that Pakistan will continue exposing India; and will not let the world community be misled by Indian propaganda. “The world community, including the United Nations counter-terrorism mechanisms; must act on the dossier presented by Pakistan; with incontrovertible evidence of Indian state sponsorship of terrorism,” he said.
Neutralising of 4 terrorists belonging to Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed and the presence of a large cache of weapons and explosives with them indicates that their efforts to wreak major havoc and destruction have once again been thwarted.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 20, 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday had claimed that a terrorist plot was “thwarted” after four “terrorists” belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were “neutralized” by Indian security forces. A day later, the FO had rejected as “unsubstantiated” Delhi’s allegations linking Pakistan to the purported botched terrorist attack in occupied Kashmir.
The Indian Chargé d’Affaires was summoned to the FO to reject the allegations; that were initially leveled by the Indian premier and repeated by the Ministry of External Affairs; when the Pakistani envoy in Delhi was called for registering protest over the so-called planned attack.
The FO said Indian allegations were meant to mischievously implicate; Pakistan in what is being claimed as a “foiled attack” in Nagrota in occupied Kashmir.
China had also rushed to shield Pakistan from Modi’s allegations by recalling “positive contributions” made by Islamabad against global terrorism.
“China appreciates the positive contribution by Pakistan to the international counter-terrorism cause, firmly supports Pakistan in cracking down terrorist forces. Attempts that aim to sabotage [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor] are doomed to fail,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao had said.
China appreciates the positive contribution by Pakistan to the international counter-terrorism cause, firmly supports Pakistan in cracking down terrorist forces. Attempts that aim to sabotage #CPEC are doomed to fail. pic.twitter.com/IQyGgwkVCw
— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 20, 2020