ISLAMABAD
\nForeign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has said that the latest revelations by the so-called former Governor of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik have once again vindicated Pakistan\u2019s stance on the Pulwama Attack.
\nIn a statement Sunday, she said that his disclosures demonstrate how the Indian leadership has habitually used the bogey of terrorism from Pakistan to advance its sham victimhood narrative and the Hindutva agenda for domestic political gains.
\nThe Spokesperson hoped that the international community would take cognizance of the latest revelations and see through India\u2019s propaganda campaign against Pakistan driven by selfish political considerations and based on lies and deceit.
\n\u201cHis disclosures demonstrate how the Indian leadership has habitually used the bogey of terrorism from Pakistan to advance its sham victimhood narrative and the Hindutva agenda, clearly for domestic political gains,\u201d the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday.
\nThe spokesperson further said that Pakistan hoped that the international community would take cognizance of the latest revelations and see through India\u2019s propaganda campaign against Pakistan driven by selfish political considerations and based on lies and deceit. \u201cIndia must answer the questions raised in the latest revelations.
\nIt is time India be held accountable for the actions that imperiled regional peace in the aftermath of Pulwama attack,\u201d it was stressed. Pakistan, the spokesperson said, for its part, would continue to counter India\u2019s false narrative, and act firmly and responsibly in the face of different provocations.
\nIn an interview with Karan Thapar for \u2018The Wire\u2019, Satya Pal Malik, the Indian government\u2019s former so-called governor of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), painted a damning picture of the PM Modi and his closest advisors.
\nMalik, the last so-called governor of IIOJK before it was divided and reduced to Union territory status, said \u201cMein safely keh sakta hoon Prime Minister ko corruption se bahut nafrat nahin hain\u201d (\u2018I can safely say the PM has no real problem with corruption\u2019).
\nMalik, who was governor during the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 2019 and the scrapping of Article 370 in August that year, said the prime minister was \u201cill-informed\u201d and \u201cignorant\u201d about Kashmir and told him not to speak about the Union home ministry\u2019s lapses which led to the devastating terrorist attack on soldiers in Pulwama in February 2019.
\nDuring the interview, Malik revealed that the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Pulwama was a result of \u201cincompetence\u201d by the Indian system and specifically the CRPF and the home ministry.
\nAt the time, Rajnath Singh was home minister. Malik gave extensive details of how the CRPF had asked for aircraft to transport its jawans but was refused by the Union home ministry. He also spoke of how sanitisation of the route was not done effectively.
\nMore importantly, he said all of these lapses were raised by him directly when Modi called him from outside Corbett Park shortly after the Pulwama attack. He said the prime minister told him to keep quiet about this and not tell anyone.
\nSeparately, Malik said that NSA Ajit Doval also told him to keep quiet and not talk about it. Malik said he immediately realised that the intention was to put the blame on Pakistan and derive electoral benefit for the government and the BJP.
\nMalik also said that there was grave intelligence failure in the Pulwama incident because the car carrying 300 kilograms of RDX explosives had come from Pakistan but was travelling around the roads and villages of IIOJK for 10-15 days without being detected and without anyone knowing.
\nMalik also gave details of how, when he was governor of J&K, he was approached by the BJP-RSS leader Ram Madhav to clear a hydro-electric scheme and a Reliance insurance scheme.
\nMadhav came to see him at seven in the morning to try and get him to change his mind. Malik said at the time people were telling him that he could get Rs 300 crores for clearing both schemes.
\nMalik said the prime minister was \u201cignorant\u201d and \u201cill-informed\u201d about Kashmir. He said removing IIOJK\u2019s statehood was a mistake and it should be restored immediately. Speaking about Modi, Malik said \u201cthe prime minister is not at all concerned about corruption.\u201d
\nHe said he was removed as governor of Goa in August 2020 and sent to Meghalaya because he had brought to the prime minister\u2019s attention several instances of corruption which the government chose to ignore rather than tackle.
\nHe alleged that the people around the prime minister were indulging in corruption and often use the PMO\u2019s name. Malik said he had brought all of this to Modi\u2019s attention but added that the PM did not seem to care.
\nThat\u2019s when he said, \u201cMein safely keh sakta hoon Prime Minister ko corruption se bahut nafrat nahin hain\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch has said that the latest revelations by the so-called former Governor of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik have once again vindicated Pakistan\u2019s stance on the Pulwama Attack. In a statement Sunday, she said that his disclosures demonstrate how the Indian leadership has habitually […]<\/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-326234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n