Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has alleged that India was helping terror groups in his country after India rejected Pakistan's claim that it was carrying out "attacks" from Afghanistan.

"India has designs on Pakistan and is helping militants to carry out heinous acts inside Pakistan," Asif told Dawn News. He said that India wants to keep Pakistan busy with "skirmishes on the eastern border so that the country remains distracted from the war on its western borders and the terrorism within."