India issues demarche while referring to LeT terrorist and Pak national Bahadur Ali’s arrest from Kashmir recently
New Delhi: Amid growing strain in ties, India yesterday summoned Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit and issued a strong demarche over Pakistan’s continued support to cross-border terrorism in Kashmir, which has fuelled unrest in the Valley.
BSF soldiers shout slogans as they carry the coffin of a colleague after a wreath-laying ceremony in Srinagar yesterday. Pic/AFP
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Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar called Basit to his South Block office and lodged a strong protest over the issue as he made a specific reference to LeT terrorist and Pakistani national Bahadur Ali, who was captured recently in North Kashmir during an encounter.
“Jaishankar called the Pakistan envoy and issued a strong demarche on continuing cross border terrorism from Pakistan. Demarche made specific reference to LeT terrorist and Pak national Bahadur Ali who was apprehended recently,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
Ali, born in the Zia Bagga village of Pakistan, was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir on July 25 with weapons, communication equipment and other material of Pakistani/ international origin, according to the demarche issued to Basit.
“Bahadur Ali has confessed that after training in LeT camps, he was infiltrated into India. He was thereafter in touch with an ‘operations room’ of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel,” it said.
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