Indian support to terrorism.

Byline: Amjed Jaaved - Rawalpindi

INDIA mocked at Prime Minister Imran Khan's admission in the UN General Assembly that Pakistan trained Afghan mujahideen that the Soviets dubbed 'terrorists'.

India too trained Afghan Northern Alliance fighters. India's ambassador Bharath Raj Muthu Kumar, with the consent of then foreign minister Jaswant Singh, coordinated military and medical assistance that India was secretly giving to Ahmad Shah Massoud and his forces in Afghanistan. The support involved helicopters, ordnance, mortars, small armaments, refurbished Kalashnikovs seized in Kashmir, combat and winter clothes, packaged food, medicines, and funds.

These supplies were delivered circuitously with the help of other countries (Aeini and Farkhor air bases in Tajikistan) or through Masssoud's brother in London, Wali Massoud.

India now calls Kashmiri freedom fighters terrorists. To refresh India's memory, it called insurgents in erstwhile East Pakistan mukti bahini 'freedom fighters'.

Unlike Kashmir, East Pakistan was not a disputed territory. It was an integral part of Pakistan. But, India harboured, nurtured, trained and armed Bengali 'freedom fighters' on Indian soil.

RAW's cover officers, including RK...