Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry says that Indian state-sponsored terrorism against Pakistan has been ongoing since the inception of the country.
Lt Gen Chaudhry is addressing a press conference alongside the interior secretary in Islamabad.
He said in 2009, the Pakistani government had handed a dozier of irrefutable evidence to then Indian prime minister.
“The publicly disclosed documents that were released in 2010 are part of history.”
In 2016, the world saw another ugly face of India-sponsored terrorism in Balochistan in the name of Kulbushan Jadhav, a serving Indian naval officer,“ he said.
“Then in 2019, a dozier full of evidence was presented to the United Nations.
Very recently, the international media has seen self giving confession and acknowledgement of multiple surrendered terrorists of this Fitna al Hindustan.
“This is what happened on May 21 on the orders of Hindustan, done by the terrorists of fitnah Al Hindustan,” he said referring to the attack on a school bus in Khuzdar in Balochistan.
“Is there any humanity, morality, any Baloch or Pakistani identity in this?”
“In the aftermath of the despicable terrorist attack on a school bus in Khuzdar on the early morning on May 21, this cowardly attack targeted innocent children of our future resulting in the tragic loss of six children and injuries to 31 others.
Let me be unequivocal that this was not an attack on a bus alone, it was an attack on our values, on our education and the very fabric of our society.“
The DG ISPR said: “On behalf of the government of Pakistan, I extend my deepest condolences to the families of the victims, we share their grief and we stand by them in this hour of immense suffering. The Ministry of Interior in close cooperation with the provincial authorities and the law enforcement agencies are looking into all of this dastardly attack.”
He said initial findings confirm that this attack is a continuity of a broader pattern of violence sponsored by India through Fitna al Hindustan operating under the tutelage and intelligence of the Indian intelligence agency RAW.
“Having miserably failed in Operation Sindoor, the terror proxies of Hindustan have been tasked to accentuate their heinous attacks of terrorism in Balochistan and elsewhere. Let me be absolutely clear here, the people of Pakistan will not let them succeed . Pakistan and its people, particularly in Balochistan reject this nefarious design. The state has the capacity and the will to dismantle these networks and bring the preparators and their handlers to justice. Such actions will have consequences.”
He said in the past couple of years, having suffered immense casualties in their attempts against hard targets, Fitna al Hindustan has resorted to hitting soft targets wayfarers, labourers working on development projects, infrastructure and machinery to paint a picture of loosening control of the State.
“Much against the tradition and culture of the Baloch, these terrorists have stooped so low that innocent school children have now been targeted.
I assure you that the State in collaboration with the provincial governments and the state apparatus will defeat them.
These Indian-sponsored terrorists have no place in Pakistan and our national discourse. We have … commitment to bring an end to this violence. Our resolve is firm and our response will be decided. They will not succeed.“
The DG ISPR said that India was “planning and instructing” the terrorist activities taking place in Pakistan, adding that the funding for the activities was also provided by India.
He continued that the attack in Balochistan had nothing to do with the Baloch identity, rather it was just India’s provocation.
