NEW DELHI: A day after Balochistan Home Minister accused
Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing of masterminding the
suicide attack at Quetta Civil Hospital, India summoned Pakistan High
Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit to lodge a protest against
"continuing cross-border terrorism from Pakistan".
India's
Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said Foreign
Secretary S Jaishankar summoned the Pakistan envoy and specifically
mentioned " a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and Pakistani national
Bahadur Ali, who was apprehended recently" in India-held Kashmir (IHK).
The "strong demarche" says Bahadur Ali, 20, a resident of
Raiwind, Lahore, was arrested in IHK on July 25 by Indian authorities,
Swarup said.
An AK-47 rifle, live rounds of ammunition,
grenades, a grenade launcher, and "sophisticated communications
equipment and other material of Pakistani/international origin" were
recovered from his possession, the spokesman added.
"Bahadur
Ali confessed to our authorities that after receiving training in LeT
camps, he infiltrated India. He was thereafter in touch with the
'operations room' of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian
security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India," the
demarche said.
The statement goes on to say that Bahadur Ali has requested
legal aid and permission to meet his family, and that India is prepared
to grant consular access to the suspected terrorist.
"The
Indian government strongly protests against the continued infiltration
from Pakistan of trained terrorists with instructions to carry out
attacks," the demarche says, adding that such incidents are "contrary to
assurances given by Pakistani leaders at the highest level".
Relations
between Pakistan and India have been tense in the wake of weeks-long
violence in IHK as both governments criticise the other's reactions and
statements after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed by
Indian government forces, spurring a wave of violence and
anti-government protests in the restive Himalayan region.
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