Addressing a press conference on Afghanistan’s situation in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the Pakistan Army’s spokesperson, said India’s role in the war-torn country was "extremely negative".
"We need to understand what has been India’s role in Afghanistan. I think whatever investment they made in Afghanistan and the kind of clout they developed, it was all done with one intention — to harm Pakistan," he alleged, adding that they (India) have no love lost for Afghan people.
"India poisoned the minds of the Afghan leadership, its intelligence agencies, as well as the army, thus giving rise to negative statements against Pakistan," he claimed.
The military spokesman alleged that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), together with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), had extended help to terrorist organisations, like the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Daesh (Islamic State), among others, to conspire against Pakistan.
"The entire goal was to hurt Pakistan. If they (Afghanistan’s spy agency) were doing their own job, they would have been much better prepared to take on what’s happening today," he claimed.
The spokesman said that Pakistan had been reaching out to the Afghan government to formalise a border control mechanism, including intelligence-sharing, but "we" did not receive a positive response. "We offered it (army training) several times but only six cadets came. However, hundreds and thousands of Afghan Army soldiers went for training to India and several Indian Army training teams were placed in Afghanistan to train Afghan forces," he said, emphasising that peace in Pakistan was directly linked to peace in Afghanistan.
The spokesperson, moreover, said that while the country’s armed forces were conducting security operations on the western border, there were "massive" ceasefire violations (CFVs) on its eastern border.
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