India hits back at Pakistan over terror charges; recalls Imran Khan's stunning admission

Ministry of External Affairs on Friday hit back at Pakistan over it calling India sponsor of "terrorist organisations in Afghanistan", recalling Prime Minister Imran Khan's own mission last year that Pakistan still hosts 30,000 to 40,000 terrorists in its neighbourhood. 

In a statement, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, " Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan would do well to recall that ir Prime Minister mitted last year that Pakistan still hosts 30,000 to 40,000 terrorists. Pakistan’s leership is also on record ackwledging that in past terrorists h used country's soil to carry out terror attacks on or countries."

On Thursday, Pakistan's Foreign Office h contended MEA h misrepresented an explosive United Nations report on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism to slander country. “Pakistan categorically rejects India’s malicious allegations, which are aimed at misleing international community,” a statement said.

Foreign Office claimed that India was trying to “create complications for Afghan peace process”, and that Pakistan h highlighted what it was said was India’s “sponsorship of terrorist organisations in Afghanistan”.

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Pakistan should introspect

Reacting to this, Anurag Srivastava said that UN report has only reiterated what Imran Khan has alrey confessed and inste of casting aspersions on report, Pakistan should "introspect and put an end to any kind of support for terrorism emanating from territories under its control".

" UN and international community are well acquainted with reality that Pakistan is nerve center of terrorism. It houses one of largest numbers of UN-designated terrorists and terrorist entities. Its fallacious attempts to point fingers at ors cant deflect attention from facts on ground," MEA statement said.

Moreover, Pakistan’s attempts to create a divide in tritional and friendly relations between people of India and Afghanistan will t succeed, MEA ded, highlighting Afghan people's kwledge of "who is sheltering, training, arming and financing terrorists and sponsoring violence against incent Afghans".

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UN report exposes Pak's nefarious role

Following a report submitted to United Nations last month that says that re are 6,500 Pakistanis among or foreign terrorist fighters in Afghanistan, India h said it vindicates country's long-standing position that Pakistan remains an epicentre of international terrorism. Those Pakistani terrorists are allied to groups like Taliban, Al-Qaida, and Islamic State in Iraq and Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K).

A report of Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, which was submitted to UN Security Council (UNSC), says among those groups posing a security threat, Afghan officials highlighted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jaish-i-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba groups on which Team has written in previous reports. 

TTP, JeM and LeT are all designated terror groups in India and latter two have been involved in cross-border attacks on civilians as well as military targets.

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