US can stop Indian subversive activities in Pakistan: Envoy.

WASHINGTON -- The United States is perhaps the only country in the world that is in a position to play an important and critical role on the issue of Indian subversive activities in Pakistan, said IslamAabad's envoy in Washington, Asad Majeed Khan.

Asad Majeed Khan and former US representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan James Dobbins, in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, discussed India's involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan.

'We see the US as perhaps the only country in the world that is in a position to play an important and critical role on this issue,' said the country's envoy.

Khan observed that Pakistan has managed to significantly reduce the number of attacks in the country over the last decade. However, he blamed India for the resurgence of attacks in the country. "Unfortunately we see the Indian footprint and Indian fingerprints all over the place."

The country's top diplomat, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and the military spokesperson, Major General Babar Iftikhar, had presented a dossier earlier in November detailing India's involvement in terror attacks in Pakistan during the media conference.

Multiple video clips and audio clips, along with documents, were presented during the media conference of Indian handlers and terrorists communicating with each other and Indian intelligence handlers passing on instructions to terrorists in Pakistan.

The ambassador expressed hope that the engagement of the US could support peace and stability in the South Asian region. He added that India has successfully painted itself as the innocent target of terrorism.

'A certain narrative has been built around Indian victimhood - how India has suffered at the hand of terrorists - and much of that blame has been thrown at us."

Khan said that it is time that the world understood not just India's destabilizing activities in the region but also its attacks on democratic governance and human rights at home under the current Hindu nationalist government.

Referring to the human rights violation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ and K), the envoy said Pakistan would like to see the US pressure India over the revocation of the disputed region's special status and...

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