ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria has said that Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing has developed a clandestine nexus with terrorist groups based in Afghanistan.
“RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] of India has developed a clandestine nexus with terrorist groups based in Afghanistan, like the TTP [Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan], the JuA [Jamaatul Ahrar] and the ETIM [East Turkestan Islamic Movement] etc,” he said during a weekly press briefing here today.
“These groups were being used to foment unrest and orchestrate terrorist attacks in Pakistan and other regional countries.
The FO spokesperson further said that Pakistan has objected to the US plan seeking the greater role of India in Afghanistan, accusing New Delhi of playing the role of a spoiler in the war-torn country.
Briefing media in the backdrop of the recent visit by US Defense Secretary James Mattis to New Delhi, Zakaria said India, under the garb of development assistance, had used the Afghan soil to carry out subversive activities inside Pakistan.
“We have evidence to this effect, which was shared with the US, the UN secretary general and also with the Afghan authorities,” he said.
