July 1, 2020
Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring terrorist attack on Karachi Stock Exchange
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and National Security Advisor Dr Moeed Yusuf have accused India for sponsoring terrorist attack on Karachi Stock Exchange on June 29, which left the four terrorist and four security official killed.
According to media reports, 4 heavily armed terrorists tried to enter Pakistan Stock Exchange Karachi building Saturday morning using latest weapons and hand grenades. However, timely action of the security forces thwarted the attempt.
According to a police statement, one sub-inspector and two security guards were killed in the attack. Seven people, including three police officials, have been injured, the statement said.
All the terrorists were killed while a number of persons wounded in exchange of fire between security forces and the terrorists.
While strongly condemning the attack, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a statement
suggested that India was involved in the deadly attack, recalling that he had stated after an attack in Waziristan that New Delhi had activated its "sleeper cells" in the country.
The circumstances of today's attack, if examined, "will lead to the same sleeper cells", Qureshi added.
"India cannot tolerate peace in Pakistan," the minister said, adding that India was involved in the attack on Pakistani troops as well.
He said India was being "exposed" before the world, including through its confrontation with China in Ladakh and its oppression of people in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf tweeted: "Make no mistake, today’s attack in Karachi is state-sponsored terrorism against Pakistan."
He said the world "must wake up to suicidal tendencies of this destabilizing actor that is finding distractions to overcome its own failures and embarrassment".
"Our warnings have come true repeatedly. Whether on demographic re-engineering in Kashmir or sponsored terrorism against Pakistan," he added, without naming India.
In a later tweet, Yusuf called upon the international community to "publicly call out and condemn countries" that perpetrate terrorism against Pakistan.
"There is an established link between BLA, an international listed terror organization, and India, a state led by [a] fascist government that has again perpetrated terrorism in Pakistan through its proxies," he wrote.
The Baloch Liberation Army – The Indian Connection
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) said its Majeed Brigade was responsible for the attack. The BLA issued the list of the terrorists involved in today’s attack. Members included, Tasleem Baloch, Shehzad Baloch, Salman Hammal and Siraj Kungur.
“The Baloch Liberation Army is an armed separatist group that targets security forces and civilians, mainly in ethnic Baloch areas of Pakistan,” U.S. State Department said in a statement while designating the BLA as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2019.
“The BLA is an armed separatist group that targets security forces and civilians, mainly in ethnic Baloch areas of Pakistan,” said the U.S. State Department.
It is established that BLA commanders, in the past, had sought medical treatment in India’s hospitals, often under disguise or with fake identity, according to The Hindu.
In one such case, a militant commander in charge of Khuzdar city was based in Delhi for at least six months in 2017 when he underwent extensive treatment for kidney-related ailments, the paper said adding:
“It is known that the Baloch sardars like the late Akbar Bugti and Ghaus Bukhsh Bizenjo maintained warm personal ties with various Indian political figures. However, visits by militants are often under assumed identities unlike those by prominent well known leaders.
“Another leader, who visited India last year, was Mama Qadeer. He has become a popular face of civil society movement after he launched a long march seeking the truth about his missing son, a Baloch activist.”
Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav captured by Pakistan in March 2016, had also admitted that that he was tasked by the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, to plan, coordinate and organize espionage activities aiming to wage war against Pakistan by impeding the efforts of Law Enforcement Agencies for restoring peace in Balochistan and Karachi.
Tellingly, in his address to the nation on August 15, 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “Today, I want to especially honour and thank some people from the ramparts of the Red Fort. For the past few days, the people of Balochistan, people of Gilgit, people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the way their citizens have heartily thanked me, the way they have acknowledged me, the goodwill they have shown towards me, people settled far across, the land which I have not seen, people I have not met ever….”
And also In 2016, Ajit Doval, India’s National Security Adviser, said that Pakistan must know and understand that if they do another Mumbai then they would lose Baluchistan. He was alluding to Mumbai terrorist attack when at least 164 people were killed in terrorist attacks on buildings in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
Abdus Sattar Ghazali is the Chief Editor of the Journal of America (www.journalofamerica.net) email: asghazali2011 (@) gmail.com
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