Rawalpindi: Director General ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said India is sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan to destabilize the region.
Addressing a joint news conference, along with Interior Secretary Khurram Agha, in Rawalpindi Friday, he said we have credible information and evidence that India, through its proxies like Fitna al-Hindustan and Fitan al-Khawarij, is fomenting terrorism in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Director General ISPR said India has become the epicenter to destabilize the region and is financing, planning, prosecuting and instructing terrorist activities in Pakistan.
He said Fitna al-Hindustan is targeting innocent people, including labourers, barbers, passengers, and now school children on the behest of their Indian masters.
Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Indian social media accounts as well as the electronic media are also on the forefront to stoke terrorism in Pakistan. He showed screenshots of numerous Indian social media accounts and video clips of the Indian media celebrating the terrorist activities in Pakistan, including the attack on Jaffer Express.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary Interior Khurram Agha informed the reporters initial findings into the Khuzdar School Bus attack has confirmed that the attack is a continuity of a broader pattern of violence, sponsored by India through Fitna al-Hindustan, operating under the tutelage and patronage of Indian intelligence agency RAW.
He said having miserably failed in the so-called operation Sindoor, the terror proxies of India have been tasked to accentuate their heinous attacks of terrorism in Balochistan and elsewhere. Sabotage development in the region, incite fear among the population and derail the journey of peace and development in an attempt to repeat their playbook of 1971.
The Secretary Interior made it clear that the people of Pakistan will not let them succeed. He said Pakistan and its people, particularly, those in Balochistan, reject this nefarious design. He said the state of Pakistan has the capacity and the will to dismantle these networks and bring the perpetrators and their handlers to justice. He said having suffered immense casualties in their attempts against hard targets, Fitna-al-Hindustan have now resorted to hitting soft targets, labourers, working on development projects, infrastructure and machinery to paint a picture of loosening control of the state. Much against the traditions and culture of the Baloch, these terrorists have stooped so low that innocent schoolchildren have now been targeted.
Khurram Agha assured that that the state in collaboration with the provincial governments and the state apparatus will defeat the terrorist elements. These Indian sponsored terrorists have no place in Pakistan and our national discourse. He said we have the wherewithal and the commitment to bring an end to this violence. He said our resolve is firm and our response will be decisive.