India on Tuesday firmly rejected Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif’s claim that New Delhi was behind the recent suicide bombing in Islamabad, calling the accusation “baseless and unfounded.”
“India unequivocally rejects the baseless and unfounded allegations being made by an obviously delirious Pakistani leadership. It is a predictable tactic,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
The statement came just hours after the Pakistan PM, while speaking at the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference in Islamabad, blamed India for sponsoring terrorism to destabilise Pakistan. This came even though the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had already claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Islamabad on Tuesday.
In a post on the official Government of Pakistan X account, Sharif alleged that the suicide attack “originated in Afghanistan with India’s backing.”
He went on to claim, without presenting any evidence, that “no condemnation is enough for these attacks being carried out from Afghan soil under Indian patronage.”
He also linked the blast to another attack that took place outside a Cadet College in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday, in which three individuals were killed. While Pakistani security officials had blamed that attack on the banned TTP, the Prime Minister stated that the same “network operating from Afghan territory” was responsible for both incidents.
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