India using Afghan soil against Pakistan: FO

Published November 21, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that India should immediately stop using Afghan territory for anti-Pakistan activities.

Indian consulates in Afghanistan were busy in anti-Pakistan activities, which was creating problems for Pakistan, Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told a TV channel.

He said that since long Indian secret agencies were involved in anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan.

Referring to a statement of Indian external affairs minister, in which he had said: “If any harm comes to any member of Indian consulates either in Jalalabad or Kandahar, we will hold Pakistan responsible for it,” the spokesman said it was Indian secret agencies which killed their own people and put the blame on Pakistan for terrorist activities.

The Indian forces and secret agencies had played such dramas in the occupied Kashmir, he said.

He warned India that it should avoid playing such dramas on the Afghan soil.

Mr Khan said the Afghan government should be given a chance for the completion of the Bonn process. “We should work for peace and progress in the country so that the region could be put on the path of progress and development,” he added.—APP