ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office on Thursday rejected India’s claims aboutPakistan, using its “so-called Border Action Teams” to infiltrate the Lineof Control (LoC), saying no such force existed in the country.
Terming the allegations as “baseless”, Foreign Office Spokesman MuhammadFaisal at a weekly press briefing said India’s accusations againstPakistan’s military to opt for such tactics, were totally incorrect.
“Pakistan Army is a responsible and professional force, committed toprotecting the lives and property of its own citizens and does not resortto such irresponsible provocation,” he said.
On the contrary, the Spokesman said “the Indian occupations forces weredeliberately targeting civilians in a desperate bid to raise the bogey ofexternal threats”.
“India continues with its aggressive and belligerent posturing justifyingits ceasefire violations by leveling baseless allegations of infiltrationfrom the Pakistani side,” he said.
He said the Indian mal-intent was also apparent from its repeated ceasefireviolations instead of using the hotline contact between the two sides.
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The FO spokesman said Pakistan consistently maintained the smoothfunctioning of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan(UNMOGIP) in line with the UN Security Council Resolutions to maintainpeace and tranquility.
However, he said India was restricting UNMOGIP’s movement in its side ascompared to Pakistan that allowed its unhindered monitoring.
On Kartarpur Corridor, the spokesman said the work continued actively atthe Pakistani side with construction of bridge at the River Ravi underway.He said the topographical and hydrological surveys had been completed tomaterialize the project aimed at facilitating the Sikh pilgrims to theirholy shrine inside Pakistan.
