United Nations (TDI): Islamabad has criticized India for providing material and logistical support to Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities and militant groups operating from Afghan territory, saying that such assistance is being used to facilitate attacks against Pakistan.
Muhammad Jawad Ajmal, counsellor at Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, gave the statement while exercising Pakistan’s right of reply to remarks by India’s representative at the UN on October 7. The Pakistani mission subsequently published the comments on its official website.
Ajmal said India’s expanding engagement with the Taliban government was not accidental and it was using humanitarian assistance as a cover for providing support to Afghan authorities.
“Under the garb of humanitarian aid, they have been actively supporting the Taliban regime with material and logistical support for carrying out terrorist attacks against Pakistan,” he said.
The Pakistani diplomat further said that India was supporting militant groups, including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), through proxies operating from Afghanistan.
“Their newfound love for the Taliban regime is no accident,” Ajmal said, reiterating Pakistan’s position that Indian support was being used to facilitate attacks against the country.
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Pakistan has repeatedly accused militant groups operating from Afghanistan of carrying out attacks inside Pakistan, while the Taliban authorities have rejected allegations that they provide safe havens to the TTP.
Ajmal also criticized India for human rights violations, saying that New Delhi had mainstreamed Islamophobia and extremist ideologies and was seeking demographic changes in Jammu and Kashmir in violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions.
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The Pakistani diplomat also referred to the case of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving Indian naval officer involved in espionage, sabotage and terrorist activities in Pakistan. Ajmal described Jadhav’s capture and the allegations surrounding his case as an example of Indian state terrorism.
