NEW DELHI – India was left embarrassing yet again over maligning Pakistanfor terrorism charges.
The Delhi police took down posters showing two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammadoperatives days after a seminary in Pakistan identified the so-calledoperatives as its students who never visited India.
The anti-terror unit of Delhi police, Special Cell had released thepictures of two young men claiming that they were members of a terrororganisation, warning a probable terror strike in the national Capital.
However, the law enforcers were left ashamed when the alleged ‘militants’were identified as Nadeem and Tayyab who had nothing to do with any terroroutfit and were students of a seminary in Pakistan.
In its bid to discredit Pakistan, India also generated an alert with apicture showing two young men leaning against a milestone on which“Firozpur 9 kilometres, Delhi 360 kilometres” was inscribed in Urdu.
The police handout cautioned citizens to alert the law enforcers if theyspot the duo, assuming that the picture was taken in Firozpur, a town inIndia’s Punjab.
Indian war hysteria fell on a stony ground when the administrator of JamiaImdadia in Pakistan’s Faisalabad city identified the men in posters asstudents of his seminary who never visited India.
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Addressing a press conference alongside the students, Mufti Zahid said bothtook a picture at Ganda Singh border along a milestone which showed thedistance to Delhi and Ferozepur.
Though the posters were taken down after the ‘damaging’ presser, it tookIndia a few more days to reverse the terror alert.
An officer from the special cell, however, said that they had receivedthe alert from intelligence agencies and that its credibility was notquestionable.
Delhi police public relation officer, deputy commissioner of police MadurVerma said it was a “classified input shared by the superior agencies”.
