New Delhi/Islamabad: A senior Pakistani politician has given away that Islamabad-backed terror outfits were not only behind the attack on tourists in Pahalgam on April 22, but also the Delhi car blast of November 10 that has claimed 15 lives so far.
Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, who serves as president in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), was caught boasting on video that both the incidents were coordinated retaliatory strikes by terror outfits based in his country.
New Delhi has taken serious note of the video and will use it to further expose Pakistan’s role in state-sponsored and cross-border terrorism before the international community.
While the Pahalgam attack has been traced to The Resistance Force (TRF), an affiliate of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Delhi blast was traced to a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)-linked group operating out of Faridabad.
Umar un Nabi, a doctor working at the Al-Falah University in Faridabad, was driving the Hyundai i20 car that blew up
at a traffic signal close to a gate of the Red Fort metro station in Delhi.
Nabi was part of the the “White Collar” terror module busted in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. This module not only comprised Navi, but several other medical practitioners, including Shaheen Shaheed – a woman doctor based in Uttar Pradesh.
Known as “Madam Surgeon”, Shaheen is an active JeM operative, tasked with carrying out blasts in six cities across India on December 6. The police seized nearly 2,900 kg of explosives from Faridabad along with detonators and assault rifles and ammunition.
In his statement, Haq said that the Pahalgam attack, in which terrorists , killed 26 people, as another example of Pakistan’s payback.
“If you keep bleeding Balochistan, we’ll hit India from Red Fort to the forests of Kashmir. By the grace of Allah, we’ve done it and they’re still unable to count bodies,’ he said.
Taunting India, Haq said that authorities in Delhi “haven’t probably counted all the bodies so far”.
While Haq has condoned this act of his country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi had recently accused Islamabad of staging “fake’ militant strikes” to advance its political aims. He said the government had blocked peace efforts in the volatile border province while “manufacturing terrorism” for domestic leverage. This was reported by Afghanistan’s TOLO News.