ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel asked on Monday the Ministry of Interior to investigate how an Indian national named Anirudh Kumar Mishra could have predicted in a tweet the recent act of terrorism in Peshawar, off by just one day.
The same man also predicted that Pakistan would suffer five more such terrorist attacks till mid-February,
Expressing concerns over the fresh wave of terrorism in the country, Senator A Rehman Malik accused India of instigating acts of terrorism in Pakistan, insisting that its agency, RAW, was using Afghanistan’s soil for such nefarious activities.
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Referring to Anirudh Kumar Mishra’s tweet, he said that this tweet showed India’s involvement.
He asked the Ministry of Interior to investigate and expose India’s real face at international forums.
Chairing the meeting of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior, he said that India was abetting and sponsoring terrorists inside Afghanistan for carrying out such acts inside Pakistan. He also urged the government to review progress of the National Action Plan (NAP) since its formulation in 2014.
The Senate’s panel passed a unanimous resolution condemning the attack on the Directorate of Agriculture’s Institute in Peshawar in which 12 lives were lost and 30 others were injured.
The panel’s chairperson also asked the ministry of interior and the Foreign Office to look into some tweets that signal the possibility of more attacks.
Senator Malik moved the resolution stating: “The Senate Standing Committee on Interior strongly condemns the painful terror attack on the Agriculture Training Institute, Peshawar wherein on December 1, 2017, 12 innocent people, including students, were martyred and 35 were injured.”
The committee also expressed condolences with the victims’ families.
It also urged the government to take up the matter with Kabul as terrorist kingpins such as Mullah Fazalullah and others were sponsoring terror inside Pakistan from Afghanistan.
The committee also called for enhancing security across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
It also urged the government to take up the issue of Fazalullah and other terrorists hiding inside Afghanistan with Interpol to put pressure on Afghanistan to hand over these terrorists to Pakistan.”