RECORDER REPORT
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday decided not to accept any external pressure on the issue of Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav who has been awarded death sentence for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in the country.
This was decided in a meeting chaired by Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua at Foreign Office which was attended by high officials of the Ministry of External Affairs to discuss the latest development.
According to sources, it was decided that the ambassadors of foreign countries would be briefed on the Indian involvement in terrorism and sabotage activities in the country. In this connection, they added, the irrefutable proof including Yadav’s confessional statements would be shared with the foreign diplomats, especially from the friendly countries.
They further said that Pakistan’s ambassadors abroad would be issued instructions to effectively raise the issue of India’s involvement in supporting and sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan with their respective host countries.
In a confessional video, Yadav had accepted all the charges and stated that he was a serving Indian navy officer and working for the RAW to create unrest in the country and also sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through his network.
Based on the information he had shared with Pakistani authorities, the government announced in November last year that it had identified eight Indian ‘diplomats’ who were allegedly members of the RAW and Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) and are suspected of involvement in terrorist and subversive activities.
“A number of Indian diplomats and staff belonging to Indian intelligence agencies RAW and IB have been found involved in coordinating terrorist and subversive activities in Pakistan under the garb of diplomatic assignments,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria had told a weekly briefing on November 03, 2016.
He further stated that the ‘undercover agents’ of RAW and IB handled Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) factions, fueled sectarianism in Pakistan and created unrest in Balochistan, Sindh, and Gilgit-Baltistan. They were later asked to leave the country along with their families.
