India on Friday rejected the claim of Pakistan’s Foreign Office strongly, alleging possible involvement in the Jafar Express train kidnapping in Balochistan. Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said that we strongly dismiss the baseless allegations leveled by Pakistan. The whole world knows where the center of global terrorism is. Pakistan should look into itself instead of raising finger on others for its internal problems and failures. “
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Earlier on Thursday, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Shafkat Ali Khan claimed that the rebels involved in the attack on the Jafar Express were in touch with their leaders in Afghanistan. “During the entire incident, the terrorists were in direct contact with Afghanistan -based planners during the entire incident,” he said. He said that Pakistan has repeatedly asked Afghanistan to refuse terrorist groups like Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) to use their land to attack against Pakistan.
He said, “We urge Afghanistan to hold the criminals, organizers, funding of this condemnable act of terrorism and cooperate with the Government of Pakistan to bring all the people associated with this attack, including real sponsors of terrorism.” When he was asked about a change in policy, as India was blamed for any BLA activity in the past, while this time the finger was raised towards Afghanistan, the spokesperson said that there has been no change in the policy.
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He replied, “There has been no change in our policy. And then, the facts have not changed. India is involved in sponsoring terrorism against Pakistan. What I was referring to was that in this particular incident, we have proofs of detecting calls from Afghanistan. That’s what I said.”