NEW DELHI: A day after the Balochistan home minister accused Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of masterminding the suicide attack at Quetta’s Civil Hospital, India summoned Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit to lodge a protest against “continuing cross-border terrorism from Pakistan”.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said that Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar summoned the Pakistani envoy and specifically mentioned “a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and Pakistani national Bahadur Ali, who was apprehended recently” in India-held Kashmir (IHK).
The “strong demarche” says that 20-year-old Bahadur Ali, a resident of Raiwind, Lahore, was arrested in IHK on July 25 by Indian authorities, Swarup said.
“Bahadur Ali confessed to our authorities that after receiving training in LeT camps, he infiltrated India. He was thereafter in touch with the ‘operations room’ of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India,” the demarche said.
The statement goes on to say that Bahadur Ali requested legal aid and permission to meet his family, and that India is prepared to grant consular access to the suspected ‘terrorist’. “The Indian government strongly protests against the continued infiltration from Pakistan of trained terrorists with instructions to carry out attacks,” the demarche said.
