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A day before the Pulwama terror attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad last month, a suicide bomber had killed 27 elite Revolutionary Guards and left several others wounded in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan border province.
Ajit Doval also provided evidence of the Pakistanis using their F-16 fighter planes in the attack on Indian targets by showing them the parts of the American AIM-120 air-to-air missiles.
Pakistan has gone to all countries seeking mediation but there is greater understanding of India’s position, sources said, adding India has told the international community that it is not an Indo-Pak issue, but about terrorism.
Sources said Pakistan wanted the international community to get involved, but India was not playing its game. The focus, they said, was on global war on terrorism. Even Iran and Afghanistan have said Pakistan-based groups indulged in terror activities on their soil, sources said.
While OIC adopted separate resolutions on the Kashmir issue and the recent airstrikes, the final Abu Dhabi Declaration didn’t even have a passing reference to Kashmir.
While most terror strikes in Afghanistan have been traced back to Pakistan, Iran has been at the receiving end of terror by ISI-backed Sunni groups which have links with LeT & Jaish. Uyghur extremist groups are receiving active support from across the border in Pakistan and this should bother China, well-informed sources indicated to ET.
Zorn, who is currently on a visit to India from March 2 to 4 paid tribute at the memorial, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 25.
He also expressed his condolences over the Pulwama terror attack in Kashmir, in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed.
India’s tough line is evident from the fact that Pakistan PM Imran Khan tried to speak to counterpart Narendra Modi thrice to inform him about the decision to release the IAF pilot but was rebuffed, according to sources. Pakistan’s efforts to link the release with deescalation of tension has not gone down well with New Delhi.
India has been invited by HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of UAE as the ‘Guest of Honour’. Swaraj will address the plenary of the two-day 46th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the 57-member body.
