He claims that India has actively aided and sponsored terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil against Pakistan.
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India’s criticism of its recent “targeted and proportionate” actions against terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan, calling New Delhi’s comments “baseless” and accusing India of supporting terrorist groups operating against Pakistan.
“Pakistan rejects the Indian Foreign Ministry’s baseless statement on Pakistan’s legitimate, targeted and proportionate actions against terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said in response to a media query seeking Pakistan’s reaction to the statement made by the Indian Foreign Ministry on June 29.
He called India’s remarks “absurd”, alleging that India had “historically interfered with and undermined the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighboring countries, in violation of the United Nations Charter”.
The spokesperson also accused India of continuing “to suppress the right to self-determination of Kashmiris in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in violation of relevant UN resolutions.”
Andrabi further said that India had “actively aided and sponsored terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil against Pakistan, in violation of the applicable UN Security Council sanctions regime”, and accused New Delhi of continuing “to play the role of a regional disruptor”.
He added that “his baseless accusations and inflammatory statements against Pakistan must not be accepted.”
Reiterating Islamabad’s position, the spokesperson said Pakistan “has taken and will continue to take all appropriate measures to ensure the safety and security of its citizens in accordance with international law.”
Read: 29 terrorists killed in ‘calibrated strikes’ along Pak-Afghan border, says Tarar
Earlier in the week, security forces carried out precision strikes against terrorist camps and safe houses Jamaat-ul-Ahrar And Fitna al-Khawarij in the Afghan provinces of Paktia, Paktika and Kunar, killing 29 terrorists.
The strikes were carried out as part of Operation Ghazab Lil Haq. on the night of June 28 to 29 after an attack on a Rangers camp in Karachi. In an article on X, Information Minister Ata Tarar said the strikes eliminated terrorists and destroyed stockpiles of weapons and ammunition.
Tarar said security forces were continuing the operation Ghazab Lil Haq after a series of terrorist attacks in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Balochistan, and on a Sindh Rangers camp in Karachi.
The strikes took place after security forces foiled a terrorist attack on a Sindh Rangers camp in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Jauhar area. Three Rangers personnel were martyred and four others were injured in the assault, while three terrorists were killed and another, identified as an Afghan national, was captured injured. The army attributed the attack to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
Fitna al-Khawarij is the state-designated term for the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is one of the group’s splinter factions.
Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was launched towards the end of February following renewed clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after Afghan Taliban forces fired on several sites, provoking rapid military retaliation from Pakistan.
In April, Pakistan presented three main demands to the Afghan Taliban during peace talks in Urumqi, China, including that of Kabul to officially declare the TTP a terrorist organization, dismantle its infrastructure and provide verifiable evidence of its action. These demands form the basis of Pakistan’s negotiating position, which sources say has hardened due to ongoing security concerns.
