Islamabad: Pakistan has claimed links between the “activities” of Indian diplomats stationed in Islamabad and in neighbouring Afghanistan to its own crises triggered by the suspension of its top judge and the anti-militant operations at Lal Masjid.
Quoting unnamed official sources, sections of Pakistani media on Friday said the government claims to have 'rock-hard' proof of India’s link to the mosque and the judicial crises. Pakistani newspaper The Nation quoted a Pakistani official as claiming that Pakistani security agencies had “found a passport of Indian origin from Lal Masjid after completion of the operation.”
The Nation also quoted an unnamed official as claiming that "the investigators have gathered 'rock-hard' proof about involvement of the neighbouring country in the anti-Army attacks in Pakistan.”
The official also "pointed (a) finger" at India for the killing of Chinese nationals. The official told the newspaper that the abduction of Chinese nationals by Lal Masjid clerics "further establish the doubts that secret agents of the enemy state have penetrated the jihadi outfits."
The official said India was also involved "in the uprising of nationalist parties in Balochistan". "The recent findings have put the present regime in a total fix and even jeopardised the fate of (the) ongoing composite dialogue process," the official told The Nation.
Another Pakistani newspaper, The News, quoted unnamed officials to suggest that "Indian diplomats have suddenly become more active and started meeting different government officials, politicians and lawyers secretly after March 9.”
"Two Indian embassy diplomats were seen hobnobbing with some senior officials (not judges) of the Supreme Court on June 14 this year. Sources said these diplomats have played a key role in blowing the whole judicial issue out of proportion," the officials said about Indian diplomats in Afghanistan.
The newspaper repeated the allegation about Indian diplomats being behind the kidnappings and killings of the Chinese, quoting unnamed official sources. "Use of mines and intensive firing with modern weapons in Tuesday's and Wednesday's attacks on security forces have proved the involvement of this intelligence agency in the attacks," the officials told The News.
The sources specifically told The News that Indian "diplomats have started a proper campaign against the Pakistan Army." They also blamed India for the recent book against the Army, written by Ayesha Siddiqa.
According to the newspaper, the officials "claimed that Dr Ayesha had close relations with a lady diplomat of Indian embassy" and that her "personal car is still present in the house of said lady diplomat in Islamabad. Even Ayesha's compartment in London was also provided by this diplomat."
"We are facing many problems at home front while these Indian missions (in Europe and the US) are trying to convince the Western people that our nuclear assets could go in the hands of 'extremists' any time," the officials claim. According to The News, the sources alleged that Indians were trying to target Pakistan strategic defence assets.
Islamabad's charge that Indian diplomats stationed in Kabul and four consulates — Mazaar-e-Sharif, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat — were fomenting trouble in Pakistani territory is not new.
Asked about Pakistan's allegations at a news conference in Islamabad during his last visit earlier this year, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had categorically said that his government would not allow any such activity.
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