New Delhi, India on Thursday said it is “disappointed” at the Pakistan’s response to the detailed dossier on the Jaish-e-Mohammed’s complicity in the cross-border terror attack in Pulwama and about the presence of its terror camps and leadership in Pakistan.
In response to a media query regarding Pakistan’s response to India’s dossier on the Pulwama terror attack, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said: “India is disappointed at Pakistan’s response….
Regrettably, Pakistan continues to be in denial and even refuses to acknowledge Pulwama as a terror attack”.
India insisted that Pakistan should take “immediate, credible, irreversible and verifiable actions” against terrorists and terror organizations operating from territories under its control.
The MEA spokesman maintained the Pakistan government “has not shared details of credible action, if any, taken by it against terrorists or terrorist organizations based in territories under its control”.
“We are hardly surprised, as this identical script was followed by Pakistan in the past, after the terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008 or in Pathankot in 2016. It is a well-known fact that the UN-designated terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed and its leader Masood Azhar are based in Pakistan. This was again acknowledged recently to international media by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister,” he said.
MEA spokesman also maintained – “There’s no dearth of sufficient actionable information and evidence in Pakistan itself to take action against them, if there is sincerity and intent to do so”.
“Nevertheless, we are examining the paper handed over by Pakistan,” he said and went onto add – “Pakistan should abide by the commitment it gave in 2004, and which its current leadership has recently repeated, vowing not to allow any territory under its control to be used for terrorism against India in any manner”.
Pakistan has said on Wednesday that Islamabad is “willing to allow visits” on request to the locations in and around Balakot where India has claimed to have destroyed terror camps.
The Pakistan government has also directed the ‘service providers’ for data including relevant details of activities and contacts of the GSM number provided by India with regard its findings on Pulwama terror attack.