Is India ‘training, harboring and launching … terrorists into Pakistan?

Kabul and New Delhi denied Pakistan’s accusations that India was funding “terror” groups and training them on Afghan soil, AFP reported.

The denial came a day after Islamabad said it had gathered “irrefutable” evidence, which it plans to present to the UN, of Indian involvement in “terrorist” activities impacting Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said India’s intelligence agencies had established a cell focused on attacking infrastructure projects being built by China, particularly in the restive western province of Balochistan.

“We expect the international community to force India to end its terrorism; bring to justice those responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in Pakistan,” Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Twitter.

A statement from Pakistan’s military said India was “training, harboring and launching… terrorists into Pakistan,” from 87 training camps — 66 in Afghanistan and 21 in India.

Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry denied the claim.

“The Afghan government explicitly declares that Afghanistan has been the main victim of terrorism in the world, and we are committed to the policy of combating all forms of terrorism,” the Afghan statement cited by AFP read.

New Delhi meanwhile called Pakistan’s allegations a “futile anti-India propaganda exercise.”

“The so-called claims of ‘proof’ against India enjoy no credibility, are fabricated and represent figments of imagination,” India’s ministry of external affairs said in a statement.

Pakistan and China are working together on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in which Beijing is investing heavily in Pakistan’s infrastructure and developing a deep-water port, at Gwadar in the Arabian Sea.