ISLAMABAD
\nMinister of the State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has said no country has used terrorism better for its benefit than India.
\nAddressing a press conference at the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Wednesday, she shared details of a dossier containing \u201cevidence of India\u2019s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan with the media\u201d.
\nKhar was addressing the news conference a day after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that India\u2019s footprints are seen in all terror activities carried out in Pakistan and New Delhi\u2019s activities have gone \u201cbeyond that of an enemy state\u201d just to hide its atrocities in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
\nHina Rabbani said that India\u2019s target is to undermine Pakistan\u2019s peace and security through terrorism. \u201cTo play on the back of the attention of the world on terrorism and to play the victim, no country has benefitted from it better than India,\u201d she lamented.
\nKhar added that India was portraying itself as a champion of counter-terrorism even though it had not made no contributions in this regard and paid only lip service.
\n\u201cIf you compare Pakistan and India, you will find Pakistan to always be at the forefront of counter-terrorism, of ensuring that we are a player in the world to try and make sure terrorism does not continue to haunt us,\u201d she asserted.
\n\u201cWe are at a unique place where perpetrators of terrorism are acting as victims of terrorism\u201d. She said no one \u201cis willing to call the bluff and call out the hypocrisy\u201d.
\nShe added that the Foreign Secretary Asad Majeed Khan had called the members of diplomatic corps in Islamabad and shared Pakistan\u2019s dossier. \u201cThis dossier, as you already know, has details \u2014 evidence of how India has been found to be fully behind this particular incident which led to the loss of lives,\u201d she said.
\nThe minister added that the evidence reflects India\u2019s persistent hostility towards Pakistan and the use of terrorist proxies to achieve terrorist objectives. The state minister said that the law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities have brought the front men of the attack to justice.
\nKhar further revealed that while some of the perpetrators of the attack had been brought to justice, the \u201cmasterminds and the facilitators\u201d remained at large and \u201cunder Indian state patronage and protection\u201d.
\n\u201cThe masterminds and the facilitators remain at large and under Indian state patronage and protection. I assure you that the Government of Pakistan will pursue this relentlessly,\u201d said Khar.
\nThe minister said that New Delhi continuously uses terrorist proxies and gives blatant support to Baloch militant organisations too. She added that New Delhi was consistently paralysing United Nations Security Council\u2019s sanctions regime by blocking the listing of Indian terrorists aided and financed by the state of India.
\n\u201cI have four names here which are of Indian nationals whose listing has been blocked by India. Gobinda Patnaik, Parthasarathy, Rajesh Kumar, and Dungara. All four names blocked by India in UNSC listing.,\u201d said Khar.
\nOn Tuesday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that there was \u201cclear evidence\u201d that India was involved in Lahore\u2019s Johar Town blast. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad along with Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Additional IG Punjab Imran Mehmood, Sanaullah announced raising the matter in the United Nations (UN).
\nHe said that Pakistanis had given innumerable sacrifices in the wave of terrorism that has gripped the country over the decades. \u201cThis incident took place some time back and we have caught all the culprits related to this. India has to some extent accepted the responsibility for it,\u201d he said.
\nThe CTD official, while briefing on the progress in the investigation of Lahore\u2019s Johar Town blast, said the prime suspect Sami ul Haq was arrested from Balochistan. \u201cDuring the investigation, we learned that he was an agent of the Indian spy agency RAW since 2012,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Minister of the State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has said no country has used terrorism better for its benefit than India. Addressing a press conference at the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Wednesday, she shared details of a dossier containing \u201cevidence of India\u2019s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan with the media\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n