Pakistan rubbishes India's claim of infiltrating 'terrorists' via LoC

FO says New Delhi's smear campaign against Pakistan already stands exposed, highlights IIOJK atrocities

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan rejected on Sunday Indian allegations that it wanted to infiltrate terrorists via the Line of Control (LoC), saying India's smear campaign against Islamabad was "well-known".

In response to the Indian media reports of “an unnamed” Indian security official who made baseless allegations against Pakistan, Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said New Delhi's smear campaign had been exposed by the EU DisinfoLab report.

The spokesperson noted that India had installed multi-tiered fence, electronic surveillance equipment and set up multiple layers of security, making it impossible for anything to go past LoC or enter the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJ&K).

He added that the allegations recycled occasionally had no basis to stand on.

On the other hand, Chaudhri highlighted, India had been involved in state-terrorism in IIOJK and against Pakistan.

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He recalled that from the Samjhota Express killings of February 2007 to the terrorist blast in Lahore in June 2021, India's hand in the incidents targeting Pakistanis had been proven.

On August 6, Pakistan summoned Indian envoy and handed over a demarche against India’s illegal and unilateral actions since August 5 2019, and continuing military siege and human rights violations in IIOJK.

It added that two years had passed since these actions were taken that breached the international law, UN charter and the 4th Geneva Convention as well as several resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the Kashmir dispute.

The envoy was reminded of Pakistan’s consistent stance that the Indian government must reverse its illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019 including lifting the inhuman military siege in IIOJK, stop its illegal measures to change the demographic structure of the occupied territory, cease extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in fake encounters and cordon-and-search operations.