Balochistan

Six Afghan ‘spies’ nabbed from Balochistan: home minister

India's RAW and Afghan NDS have united against Pakistan; Afghan refugees should leave the country, says Sarfraz Bugti

Mohammad Zafar/news Desk May 26, 2016

Balochistan home minister Sarfraz Bugti. PHOTO: INP

QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Thursday six agents belonging to two networks of Afghan intelligence agency NDS were caught from Quetta.

"Security forces have nabbed six Afghan terrorists involved in explosions, killings and other acts of terrorism in the provincial capital," he announced in a press briefing.

Bugti said India's premier spy agency RAW and Afghan intelligence NDS were working in collusion to destabilise Pakistan.

Officers of the NDS were handlers of the agents, and provided them with the resources for killings and terror activities, he added.

Indian spy admits RAW destabilising Pakistan

The home minister said the Foreign Office will raise the matter with Afghanistan, adding relations could worsen if terrorist activities from across the border continue.

'Afghan refugees should leave'

Bugti said Afghan refugees should return to the country, and Pakistanis will now put their house in order.

“We can’t tolerate this hospitality as Afghan migrants are now involved in killing innocent Baloch people,” he said. “We are asking a simple thing...we made them [Afghan migrants] our guests, we showered them with hospitality but since now they are killing us, they should leave the country right off.”

Pakistan may not extend Afghan refugees’ stay

Confession

In a confessional video statement aired during the press conference, one of the arrested, Abdullah Shah, said he was a resident of Afghan province Helmand but had a Pakistani ID card.

Similarly, Asmatullah, another person held, said he had been living in Pishin district of Balochistan for the last 20 years, and was involved in killing 22 people after having his CNIC made for Rs40,000.

Meanwhile, NDS personnel identified as Qazi Naik Muhammad Noorzai in his statement said the agency provided him Rs15 million for targeted killings.

Army chief lauds security forces

Meanwhile, army chief General Raheel Sharif appreciated the efforts of law enforcement agencies, in unearthing foreign intelligence network in Quetta.

He vowed Pakistan will defeat any nefarious designs of hurting the country and root out hostile elements.

#COAS-Qta:HQ S.Comd,briefed on op &security situation of Province.Aprc efforts of LEAs,spec int agencies in unearthing foreign Int NetWork-1
— Gen(R) Asim Saleem Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) May 26, 2016

Together We will defeat any nefarious designs of hurting Pakistan and root out hostile elements out of our country, #COAS reiterated-2
— Gen(R) Asim Saleem Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) May 26, 2016

COMMENTS (20)

Nadeem | 8 years ago | Reply So help me understand this ET, why do you cordon off the word 'spies' in commas? What is the implication here? You don't believe Mr. Bugti? You know better? Up to your usual games, aren't you?

A J Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Afghans should show that they are honorable people and leave for their dream land Afghanistan or else what ever Sarfaraz Bugti said would come true and people will throw them out. UNHCR officers should stop its delaying tactics to save jobs and instead work for refugees settlement.

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FAZ | 8 years ago | Reply @PakPower: Basically this is a typical blogger across the border. All they watch is doordarshan and live in fantacies @Kushal: Sir gee, Baloch and Pakistani Pashtuns welcomed their Afghan "brothers" after the first Afghan war. In return they got inflicted with drugs. The drug money heavily sabotaged the real state there and even in Karachi when these Afghans bought huge lands here. Thanks to our failed institutions they managed to get everything. But its enough now. Time to return their favours..

Bharat | 8 years ago | Reply @Nasir Hameed: No different to what happened with the killing of OBL Close the boarders? Fantastic : that is exactly what the US congress wants Send them home? Well - now that you have stopped the Taliban going there by closing the boarders, that country will be peaceful. The refugees will want to get back

QAISER KHAN | 8 years ago | Reply i live in Australia, You would not believe it, 99 percent people are against Pakistan. These are the peoples, who move to Pakistan, grow up there , studies, got business, got respect from Pakistani Peoples, even got married with Pakistani, still hate from Pakistan. give me a place to live in Afghanistan, just only for six month, I would have a same respect for Afghanistan, what I got for Pakistan

JA | 8 years ago | Reply Afghans are thankless nation, they must go

Tyggar | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistanis should also be sent back from every country they have taken refuge in.

Nasir Hameed | 8 years ago | Reply It is about ti,me that we ask Afghan refugees to go back to Afghanistan and seal the border. Here is US there are a lot of Afghans who were refugees in Pakistan at one time. Instead of Thanking us for the hospitality, they spew hatred for us at all levels. Just send these thankless people back home. And look out for those NGOs that will cry foul during the expulsion/deportation process. They operate on foreign funding and promote the interest of the donor countries.

Bharat | 8 years ago | Reply How dare the Afghan Government kill one of our Passport holders?

np | 8 years ago | Reply "Six Afghan ‘spies’ nabbed from Balochistan: home minister " What does RAW have to do with this? Why is the minister simply referring to RAW?

afzal qureshi | 8 years ago | Reply we must expel all afghans for our country.they eats our and playing in the hands of RAW.

Hameed | 8 years ago | Reply

Six Afghan ‘spies’ nabbed from Balochistan: home minister

Drama to divert attention from own proxies roaming free.

Paul | 8 years ago | Reply @Barakzai: They were relocated to Baluchistan just prior to the recent operation. Their location within Balochistan also came up in Western newspapers. Why Balochistan? Because there was a tacit understanding that no drones would be deployed there until the recent strike.

syed mahmood | 8 years ago | Reply Mr Bugti its time to act not just to talk. The activities are going on for years none of pakistani can do it to itself. We all knew it for a long time who is doing it. Unfortunately we are in the middle of Afghan, Iran and India what else you can expect. Beware of these activities and crush them from top to bottom.

Barakzai | 8 years ago | Reply @mind control: I thought Haqqani network was based in Waziristan and not Baluchistan but maybe you have some inside information.

PakPower | 8 years ago | Reply @Kushal: Brotherly Afghans and Baluchis? Which delusional land do you live in. I bet it is India. Pashtuns have always been criticized by Baluchis for trying to shift the province's demographics. And migrant Afghans are not making the situation any better.

AllahDitta | 8 years ago | Reply I am agree with Mr Bugti.

Shafiullah Khan | 8 years ago | Reply A good plot to escape from the current humiliation and international pressure for having been caught red handed for supporting and exporting insurgency to Afghanistan

mind control | 8 years ago | Reply “People of Balochistan are paying the price of sheltering Afghan refugees,” he said. “I ask upon international and local authorities to arrange their evacuation.” Including the Quetta Shura and the Haqqani Network?? You are really brave, if you are asking for this.

Kushal | 8 years ago | Reply All drama. An excuse to harass innocent Afghans. To create a division between brotherly Afghans and baluchis.

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