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| Pakistani FM claims India is behind terrorist groups in Balochistan province | |
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| New Delhi sponsors terrorist activities in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in an attempt to destabilize the situation in country, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. | New Delhi sponsors terrorist activities in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in an attempt to destabilize the situation in country, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. |
| India is involved in the terrorist attacks in Balochistan, the minister told local media on Tuesday, adding that terrorists use the territories of Iran and Afghanistan to conduct raids against the country. | India is involved in the terrorist attacks in Balochistan, the minister told local media on Tuesday, adding that terrorists use the territories of Iran and Afghanistan to conduct raids against the country. |
| His comments came amid the tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad, which escalated dramatically in February following an Indian airstrike on Pakistani soil. India said it was targeting the camps of Islamist militants, who bombed its servicemen in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir. Pakistan, in turn, accused its neighbor of violating its sovereignty. The flare-up led to cross-border shelling and open aerial combat between the nations. | |
| Balochistan is Pakistan’s southwestern province, bordering Afghanistan. Several terrorist and insurgency groups operate in the region. Last week, gunmen stopped several buses near the remote town of Ormara and killed 14 passengers, all of whom were military personnel. On April 12, a bomb went off at an open market in Quetta, also in Balochistan, killing 21 civilians. | |
| Pakistan blamed the Ormara attack on the insurgency group Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS). The officials claimed the militants were operating from Iran and accused Tehran of “inaction” against terrorists. Iran condemned the killing of Pakistani servicemen and agreed to create a joint border “reaction force,” after the nation’s president Hassan Rouhani met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday. | |
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