*ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has launched strong diplomatic offensive againstIndia, sources have revealed.*
As per the report, Pakistan has launched a diplomatic offensive againstIndia after the acquittal of perpetrators in the 2007 Samjhauta terroristattacks by an Indian court on Wednesday.
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua on Thursday conveyed major world capitalsabout Pakistan’s concerns over the decision. She invited members of thediplomatic corps at the Foreign Office and briefed them on the “historicinjustice done to the forty-four Pakistanis killed in the Samjhauta Expressterrorist attack in 2007 in India”.
She condemned the acquittal of all four perpetrators, including SwamiAseemanand, the mastermind of the heinous attacks and an activist of theHindu terrorist organisation, RSS who had publicly confessed hisinvolvement in the terror attacks.
Two coaches of the bi-weekly train that runs between New Delhi and Lahorecaught fire late on February 19, 2007, after two improvised explosivedevices exploded.
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The foreign secretary stressed that the Indian National InvestigationAgency (NIA) itself had earlier charge-sheeted the perpetrators. Indianmedia, she added, reported extensively about the connection between theSamjhauta terrorist attacks and Hindu extremists, including Lt ColonelPurohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who were subsequently arrested inOctober 2008, including provision of RDX (Research department explosive).
Janjua said that despite repeated requests by Pakistan for a fair trial andexpeditiously bringing the perpetrators to justice, after a lapse of morethan 11 years, Indian courts have now exonerated the accused.
