Pak envoy to Kabul says India creating problems in anti-terror war

Kabul, Nov.27 (ANI): Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Muhammad Sadiq, on Friday accused India of creating problems in the global war on terror, instead of assisting effectively in anti-terror initiatives.

Sadiq's broadside came even as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is currently attending the CHOGM summit in Trinidad and Tobago, has been saying that New Delhi has no hesitation in holding a dialogue with Pakistan provided it prevents its soil from being used by terrorists.

Sadiq, during an interview, said India should support the efforts put up by Pakistan against terrorism. But, on the contrary, India is creating problems for Pakistan by raising issues, including a difference over the distribution of water.

India is buttressing the terrorists and their activities instead of helping Pakistan and is providing weapons in Balochistan and Waziristan, Saidiq further stated.

He also blamed India for helping the Taliban, saying it is on one hand providing arms and ammunitions to the Taliban, and on the other hand, pressuring Pakistan to end terrorism.

India, he said, is not interested in Pakistan's war against terrorism.

This fact, he added, is vindicated by the fact that New Delhi supplies weapons to the Taliban in Waziristan and Balochistan.

He was categorical in stating that this was a misplaced policy and its negative effects would be felt not only in Pakistan but also in India.

India, he insisted, is peddling propaganda against Pakistan in Afghanistan, and this was major factor for Pakistanis not being in the good books of some in the Afghan establishment here.

He refused to believe that this was a policy of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Rather, he said, this is the policy of countries and their agents who spend huge amounts of money in a propaganda war against Pakistan.

"Everyone knows who are these people," the News stated him as saying.

He asserted that most of the captured suicide bombers in Pakistan were Afghan nationals. He said the man who cut the throats of 11 security men was an Afghan suicide bomber.

He strongly advised the need for maintaining a strict vigil along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to check illegal infiltrations.(ANI)