New low! Pakistan alleges India was involved in 2014 Peshawar school massacre

Ahead of National Security Advisor level talks to be held between the two nations, Pakistan has alleged that India was involved in the Peshawar school massacre, in which 136 of the 150 killed were children. This claim comes even after Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The Pakistan Army had in February also claimed that most of the terrorists involved in the brutal attack in December 2014 have either been killed or arrested.

The Pakistani Taliban had slaughtered at least 150 people in a brazen attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on 16 December, 2014, in retaliation to the army operation against the extremists in North Waziristan and it is rather inexplicable why Pakistan has chosen to blame India instead. Pakistan has in the past chosen to blame India for fermenting unrest in the Balochistan region.

As a Firstpost piece had pointed out earlier, Pakistan should perhaps understand that their greater enemy is terrorism, not India.

According to reports, Pakistan is preparing a dossier on India’s role in supporting terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi. The dossier will likely be carried by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s adviser on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz when he is expected to meet Ajit Doval in Delhi next month.

A report in CNN-IBN says Pakistan is preparing to raise the issue of alleged Indian role in Peshawar, Baluchistan, FATA and Afghanistan during the talks. The dossier also reportedly mentions the slow pace of the Samjhauta train blast trial.

Recently, Pakistan claimed an “Indian spy drone” was shot down by the army along the Line of Control in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. India denied the claim, saying no such drone crashed or was shot down. Even the Chinese firm, which reportedly manufactured the drone, said the unmanned aircraft was not sold to any government, reinforcing India’s stand that it was not in its armed forces’ inventory.

On July 10, Narendra Modi and Nawaj Sharif had in Russian city of Ufa decided to take the bilateral ties forward through a meeting of the NSAs.

The joint statement issued after the ice-breaking meeting of the two PMs stressed that one of the steps forward would include “a meeting in New Delhi between the two NSAs to discuss all issues connected to terrorism”.