Pakistan Alleges India Was Behind Train Bombings
Pakistan has “conclusive” proof that neighboring India masterminded two bombings that killed 20 people and wounded dozens more, the information minister said Saturday.
Mushahid Hussain blamed India’s security agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, for last week’s bombings on passenger trains in eastern Punjab province, which borders India. India rejected the charges.
Several people have been arrested. Hussain said they claimed that India has established at least five camps to train would-be terrorists to carry out attacks in Pakistan. Those arrested said they were trained in the camps, he said.
“Pakistan has conclusive and irrefutable evidence of RAW’s involvement in a series of bombings,” Hussain told reporters.
On Thursday, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawan Verma called the claims “entirely false, baseless and malicious.”
India and Pakistan routinely accuse each other of sponsoring bombings and other violence. The nations have fought three wars since the Asian subcontinent gained independence from Britain in 1947.
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