Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet in the Pulwama attack of 2019.
“Pakistan categorically rejects the so-called ‘chargesheet’ by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), which mischievously attempts to implicate Pakistan in the Pulwama attack,” said a statement from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry.
“The fabrications in the reported ‘chargesheet’ are patently designed to further the BJP’s anti-Pakistan rhetoric and its narrow domestic political interests,” Pakistan has alleged.
Relying on prevarications, Pakistan sought to whitewash the charges levelled against it after an exhaustive investigation.
The statement read that at the outset, Pakistan had rejected India’s baseless allegations and expressed readiness to extend cooperation on the basis of any actionable information.
“India failed to provide any credible evidence for its invective and has instead been using the attack for its malicious propaganda campaign against Pakistan,” it said.
Pakistan said the timing of the Pulwama attack, just two months before the Lok Sabha elections in India, and the fact that the key accused in the attack have already been killed by Indian forces, raise too many questions.
“The world knows well as to who benefited the most from the Pulwama attack and drew electoral dividends,” Pakistan alleged.
Islamabad said it would be recalled that Indian military aircraft engaged in belligerent action against Pakistan on February 26, 2019.
