India should be held accountable for hurling baseless accusations: Nisar

India does not have evidence regarding Pakistan's involvement in Uri attack, says security czar

Amid escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that India should be held accountable for hurling baseless accusations on Pakistan over its alleged involvement in the recent attack carried out in the occupied Kashmir.

“India itself does not have any [material] evidence regarding the Uri attack so how will Pakistan help [the Modi government] in carrying out any investigation,” Nisar said while replying to a question whether Pakistan will assist its arch rival in investigating the attack.

On Wednesday New Delhi had summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit and informed him that it was ready to provide details including fingerprints and DNA samples of militants killed in Uri attack if Islamabad ‘wishes to investigate’ the attack.



However, Pakistan is unlikely to accept India’s offer seeking its cooperation to investigate the Uri attack because of the Modi government’s ‘malicious campaign’ to defame Islamabad by prematurely blaming it for the latest incident.

“India is responsible for levelling false accusations on us when the investigations are not even completed,” the interior minister said. “We did not impose any censorship on the media but they did because their propaganda was earlier exposed by their own news channels.”



The assault, in which four commando-style gunmen burst into the brigade headquarters in Uri at 5:30am (midnight GMT) on September 18, was among the deadliest in the held Kashmir, and has raised new fears of military conflict between the two nations.

In a knee-jerk reaction to the attack on the brigade headquarters, India’s civil and military leaders squarely blamed Pakistan with media commentators calling for a military response. Pakistan, however, dismissed the Indian allegations as ‘baseless and unwarranted’.

CNICs verification

Briefing the reporters about the progress on verification of computerised national identity cards (CNICs), Nisar said that out of 60,000 dubious ID cards 50,000 have been blocked so far.



“We have verified around 80 million CNICs so far of which we blocked 50,000,” the security czar said while speaking at the press conference in Islamabad.

He said a crackdown will also be launched against people involved in issuing fake passports. “Pakistani passports were used in human trafficking. We came and ended that trend,” the interior minister said, adding that the government will begin busting the officials who have had a history of issuing fake CNICs and passports.