India has strongly rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s allegations that New Delhi was linked to the suicide bombing in Islamabad, calling the claim “baseless” and a “predictable tactic” by what it described as Pakistan’s “delirious leadership.”
Twelve people were killed and at least 20 injured on Tuesday when a suicide attacker detonated explosives outside the judicial complex, in one of the deadliest attacks in the Pakistan’s capital in recent years.
Following the blast, Prime Minister Sharif accused groups “active with Indian support” of involvement in the attack. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif also claimed the bombing was a “message from the Afghan Taliban.”
Responding to the allegations, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) dismissed them as unfounded. “India unequivocally rejects the baseless and unfounded allegations being made by an obviously delirious Pakistani leadership,” said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
“It is a predictable tactic by Pakistan to concoct false narratives against India in order to deflect the attention of its own public from the ongoing military-inspired constitutional subversion and power-grab unfolding within the country,” he said.
Jaiswal added that the “international community is well aware of the reality and will not be misled by Pakistan’s desperate diversionary ploys.”