ISLAMABAD – Foreign Office on Friday rejected Indian claims alleging adrone flying over Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
FO Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri in a statement said that the claimshad no basis in facts and no proof has yet been shared with Pakistan inthis regard.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday claimed that a dronewas spotted over its embassy in Islamabad, adding that it had raised thematter with Pakistani authorities, demanding probe into it.
Chaudhri said, “These preposterous claims have no basis in facts and noproof whatsoever has been shared with Pakistan to substantiate theseallegations”.
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He said curiously, this propaganda campaign by India was also happening ata time when evidence so far collected in the Lahore blast of June 23 wasincreasingly pointing to external forces with a history of perpetratingstate-sponsored terrorism against Pakistan.
“Pakistan rejects these patently false allegations and diversionary Indiantactics and will continue to stand by the people of IIOJK in their juststruggle for the right to self-determination, as enshrined in the UNSCresolutions,” FO spokesperson added.
