India Sponsored Terrorism in Pakistan: A Historic Overview

India Sponsored Terrorism in Pakistan: A Historic Overview

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The adversarial relations between Pakistan and India have largely been characterized by their outstanding territorial disputes, which owe their origin to partition .India has been getting away from the charge of state sponsoring terrorism in recent decades. Irrefutable evidence to the world on the Indian state’s insatiable appetite for terrorism, violence & instability has been presented globally. For decades, Pakistan has been burning in the fire of terrorism where mosques, imambargahs, educational institutes, and different gatherings have been targeted. Details of financial and  material support, and India’s direct involvement in terrorism have been shared with the world in the face of evidence, only to be ignored by the international community.

Pakistan has rightly been accusing its arch-rival neighbor of aiding and abetting terrorism, and for destabilizing the Region in the past as well. The allegations are backed by solid evidence of financing, training, harboring, and weapons supply in the shape of copies of correspondence, bank transactions and communication intercepts. The dossier exposing India’s real face before the international community had been shared with the United Nations (UN), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) as well as other influential world capitals by successive foreign ministers of Pakistan.

Diplomats, military and intelligence officials of India had been working with the Afghanistan and Iran based banned militant outfits. As part of efforts to create a terror consortium, an Indian intelligence officer named Col Rajesh working at the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, held four meetings with commanders of these terrorist organizations to coordinate and intensify their activities in Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar.These terrorism events usually take the form of high-profile assassination of religious leaders, civil leaders, or politicians. Between 2004 and 2007 the terrorist attacks across Pakistan were often through bomb blasts or suicide bombers carrying huge payloads on their bodies. Hostile Indian intelligence agencies led by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) have been trying to aggravate sectarian violence by establishing  ‘Daesh-e-Pakistan’. In this regard, 30 India backed Daesh militants were relocated from India to various camps along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by two Indian intelligence agencies operatives. Former foreign minister of Pakistan, Shah Mehmood Quraishi, in a tweet stated that these militants were handed over to Daesh Commander Sheikh Abdul Rahim alias Abdul Rehman Muslim Dost. Reportedly, India paid $820,000 to TTP leadership as well through its collaborators and handlers in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

EX-MILITARY spokesman Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar and Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi addressing a press conference on 15 NOV told a 700-member strong militia, working under 10 personnel of India’s RAW, had been raised for targeting CPEC projects according to Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR). Up to $60 million was spent on raising militia for sabotaging CPEC Projects. Similar payments were made to the sub-nationalists in Balochistan to cause unrest in the underdeveloped Province of Pakistan.  Confessional statements made by Sarfraz Merchant,  Tariq Mir,  and Ajmal Pahari showed that  India had been providing weapons and ammunition to the Altaf Hussain’s Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM). Pahari had confessed that Indian officials actively ran four training camps for Altaf-led militants at Dehradun and Haryana, in North and North-East India. About 40 terrorists belonging to his group had received training in India.

ISPR confirmed that RAW-sponsored network of six terrorists was unearthed having linkages with the attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) and was also involved in the delivery of suicide jackets to various terrorists groups operating in Pakistan. Indian intelligence agencies were running 87 terrorists’ camps targeting Pakistan. Reportedly, sixty six out of the 87 terrorist camps were located in Afghanistan, whereas the 21 others were functioning in India. Investigation in the attack on Agriculture University in Peshawar on October 26, 2017 led to masterminds of the deadly Army Public School Attack. RAW had planned the attack on the Agriculture University, for which they hired three facilitators including Malik Faridoon who is said to be one of the masterminds of the APS Attack. Reportedly, Malik Faridoon had visited the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad after the APS attack, while he also visited India for medical treatment in 2017 where he remained admitted in the Primus Hospital.

India has long been endeavoring to create unrest in Gilgit Baltistan. In the context of provisional provincial GB status being discussed in Pakistan, on 28 Sep 2020, an important meeting was held in the Ministry of Home Affairs (New Delhi), to deliberate upon the methodology to trigger negative reactions. Indian foreign missions in Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries also extensively lobbied prior to FATF meetings to undermine Pakistan’s achievements and push for its gray/ blacklisting.

In June 2021, a deadly blast near the residence of Jamaat Ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in Johar Town killed three people and injured 24 others, including a police constable. Days after the incident, the then information minister Fawad Chaudhry and National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf said that the mastermind of the attack was “an Indian citizen and he is associated with RAW. Close to a million dollars of terror financing was carried out by India to spread anarchy in Pakistan through different channels.

Pakistani’s hope that the world after looking at the “irrefutable evidence” given by Pakistan would not be able to remain “indifferent or silent” and would “force India to end its terrorism and bring to justice those responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in Pakistan. Our resilient and courageous security agencies and forces will continue to give their all to protect our people.Amidst the deep rooted mistrust between Pakistan and India, it may be difficult to establish the factuality of the terrorism -related charges both states hurl at each other from time to time. The same element of mistrust lends an equal ease to denial of the involvement in subversive acts against the country.

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