Islamabad: Lambasting New Delhi for its nefarious terror activities in Pakistan, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar termed India “Rogue state” though it projects itself as “Greatest victim” of terrorism, it is perpetrator of it.

“We are also at unique place because nobody is willing to call bluff. Nobody is willing to call out clear simple glaring hypocrisy in this whole act,” said Khar in a press conference at Ministry of Foreign Affairs here.  She said that it was important for everyone who speaks of “Justice and universality of value system to call a spade a spade”. “This particular effort is to bring to attention of world and to expect them and really encourage them to see things based on evidence as they are,” said Khar.

Foreign Secretary Asad Majeed Khan called members of diplomatic corps in Islamabad and shared Pakistan’s dossier on 2012 Johar Town blast that left six dead and 17 injured.

Unlike India, Pakistan does not blame one country or other and Islamabad has always spoken on important matters when it has strong evidence.  “It reflects India’s persistent hostility towards Pakistan and use of terrorist proxies to achieve nefarious objectives,” Khar said.

She said that law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities have brought frontmen of attack to justice. “Masterminds and facilitators remain at large and under Indian state patronage and protection. I assure you that government of Pakistan will pursue this relentlessly,” Khar said.

She said that New Delhi continuously uses terrorist proxies and gives blatant support to Baloch militant organisations. “All of these point to one objective and one method, which is to ruin peace in Pakistan and method is terrorism.”  New Delhi is consistently paralysing United Nations Security Council’s sanctions regime by blocking listing of Indian terrorists aided and financed by state of India. In response to question, Khar said it was easy to dodge blame when there is no evidence to back it, but when an Indian agent is caught, it is evident that New Delhi is sponsoring terrorism. Answering journalist’s query she ruled out social media reports claiming that senior Afghan official refused to meet her and stressed that she was very well received as guest should be.

“We were only there for certain number of hours and we could only attend certain number of meetings. There is absolutely no truth in that whatsoever.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 15 2022

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