ISLAMABAD: India dossier submitted to Pakistan last week has theinformation about the activities of JeM available in open source platformslike blogs, websites, Facebook and Twitter.
Indian government failed in provide any fresh and tangible intelligence toimplicate any outfit present in Pakistan in the Pulwama suicide attack thatresulted in killing of 44 personnel of Indian CRPF.
Foreign Secretary Ms. Tehmina Janjua was entrusted to scrutinise thedossier. They studied the dossier and couldn’t find any concrete substancein the voluminous pack of documents.
It is understood that the dossiers comprises Indian intelligence ownreports submitted to their government to satisfy their bosses. Incidentallysimilar documents in the dossiers were submitted to Pakistan a number oftimes before as well.
“The dossiers however fails to offer any specific, actionableintelligence”, sources said. Despite the shallowness of the dossier, thegovernment is here determined to probe all aspects, the sources added. Thedossier is appeared to have been prepared by incompetent and lower gradeofficials who complied reports based on hearsay.
The Indian government handed over to Pakistan it with the claim that it isdetailing Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) role in the Pulwama attack. Indiansfurther claimed that the dossier also details the presence of JeM camps andthat of its top leadership within Pakistan.
The move came after Pakistan had demanded “actionable evidence” from Indiaon the Pulwama suicide attack that was carried out by a young Kashmiri fromthe held Kashmir (IHK). India handed over the dossier to the acting highcommissioner of Pakistan Syed Haider Shah on Wednesday.
Incidentally, quoting unnamed government officials, leading Indianpublications have claimed in the last couple of days that the dossiercontained evidence showing that the Pulwama attack was hatched by theJaish-e-Mohammed on Pakistani soil. In its report on the subject, IndiaToday wrote that as per their sources’ claim the dossier contained audioand video recordings of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar praising the Pulwamaattack.
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The alleged suicide bomber Adil Dar’s video wherein he talked about thePulwama attack formed part of the dossier as well. According to IndiaToday, for India, Dar’s video, his claim to be working as a JeM recruit andhim talking about the attack are clear evidence of the direct involvementof the terrorist organisation.
The magazine’s sources claimed the dossier contained phone conversationsand transcripts of Kamran, an alleged JeM terrorist killed in Pulwama daysafter the CRPF attack. India has told Pakistan that there is clear evidenceof Kamran (Ghazi Rasheed) being in touch with his handlers from the JeM inPakistan before the Pulwama attack, said the report.
As if talking to the same government officials as sources, the IndianExpress, wrote that the dossier contained “specific details of JeMcomplicity in Pulwama terror attack and the presence of JeM terror campsand its leadership in Pakistan” along with the details of Jaish-e-Muhammadchief Maulana Masood Azhar’s anti-India speeches and claims of attacks byJaish on Indian security forces in the past two years.
Besides Pulwama, India also presented nine specific instances of JeMrallies and religious congregations in Pakistan aimed at indoctrinating andrecruiting men by instigating them against India, wrote the newspaper.
The report said: “In the latest dossier, New Delhi reiterated that JeMcarried out these activities even though it was placed under ban by thePakistani authorities in 2002.” The paper quoted a “top governmentofficial” in saying that “the information about these activities of JeM areavailable in open source platforms like blogs, websites, Facebook andTwitter.
