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Fabricated: India Denies RAW Involvement In Karachi Consulate Attack

Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Jan, 2019 10:06 PM

    India has rejected Pakistan police's charge that the country's external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing or RAW, was involved in the November terrorist attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi. The centre has rejected the accusation as "fabricated and scurrilous".


    Karachi police said they have arrested five suspects from a separatist Baloch group for the November 23 attack on the Chinese consulate that killed four people, which they claimed was carried out to "sabotage" the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).


    At a press conference, Karachi police chief Amir Sheikh said the arrested men confessed to their role in facilitating the three attackers, who were also killed during the attack on the consulate.


    Mr Shaikh claimed that the attack was planned in Afghanistan and executed with the help of India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

    Reacting to the Pakistani claim, a spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi said, "We have seen statements in the Pakistani media attributed to the police chief of Karachi making false allegations against India for the terrorist attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi in November, 2018.


    We completely reject these fabricated and scurrilous attempts to levy accusations on India. Instead of maliciously pointing fingers at others for such terrorist incidents, Pakistan needs to look inwards and undertake credible action against support to terrorism and terror infrastructure in its territories".


    Mr Sheikh said the detainees were linked to the Baloch Liberation Army, a Balochistan-based group which had claimed responsibility for the attack at the time.


    Three terrorists tried to storm the consulate in the city's posh Clifton area but security forces foiled their attempt by killing all of them in a gunfight. The attack also killed two police officials and two visa applicants.


    "The aim was to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and create the impression in China that Karachi is not safe," he said.


    India has opposed the CPEC as it passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The ambitious $60 billion CPEC project connects China's northwestern Xinjiang region to Pakistan's Arabian Sea port of Gwadar.


    India had strongly condemned the terror attack on the Chinese consulate and said such strikes only strengthen the resolve of the international community to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.


    "There can be no justification whatsoever for any act of terrorism. The perpetrators of this heinous attack should be brought to justice expeditiously," the Ministry of External Affairs had said in a statement last November.


    Amir Shaikh said that police arrested five facilitators and claimed that a probe based on their interrogation and other evidence proved the involvement of India.


    He said the terrorists spent four to five months in observing the consulate and its working.


    "They (terrorists) used to sit in the visa section of the consulate to observe when the gates open and other details," he said.


    He said that the weapons were transported from Quetta to Karachi through train and were hidden in the engine of a boat.


    Shaikh said the mastermind of the attack, Aslam alias Acho, was reportedly killed in a suicide blast in Afghanistan. However, he said he was not ready to believe it until there was proof of Aslam's death.


    He said it was an old tactic of terrorists to show a wanted rebel killed in order to divert the attention of security agencies.

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