Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday admitted that India’s most wanted terrorist Masood Azahar, the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammad was in the country. On Friday, he went a step further admitting that his government was in touch with him.
No sooner he made this statement during an interview with BBC, the correspondent looked flummoxed and surprised at that.
But his admission came as music to the ears of the Indian government as it stood vindicated that the Pakistani government was indeed harbouring state-sponsored terrorism.
While the interviewer maintained that Jaish took the responsibility of the attack, Qureshi said that there were conflicting reports on the same. He then said that the Jaish leadership was contacted and it denied their role in the Pulwama terror attack.
“…the leadership was contacted..by whom,” the interviewer sought to know at the cost of repetition for clarity. Querishi looked visibly caught off guard as the interviewer looked at him bewildered.
Today, in a interview to BBC, FM qureshi mistakenly admits they are in contact with masood azhar. pic.twitter.com/UP0tdQLlkm
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The foreign minister fumbled but carried on, though the tone of his voice was utterly unconvincing, “By…by…know…by people over here…they say…they denied. They [Jaish] did not claim responsibility of the February 14 attack.”
Indian jets had pounded a Jaish center at Balakot, deep inside Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack. Jaish had claimed responsibility for the attack.
