ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad has asked New Delhi to share ‘necessary information’ in order to verify the nationality of a man Indian authorities arrested in connection with an attack on a military convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to local media authorities.
India’s Union Minister Rajnath Singh had told the country’s parliament that initial investigations had identified the suspect as Mohammad Naveed Yakub alias Usman Khan, a resident of Faisalabad, Pakistan, stated sources.
At his weekly news briefing on Thursday, Qazi Khalilullah, the spokesperson for Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO), said he had seen media reports of the man arrested in India being projected as a Pakistani national, sources revealed.
“I will not comment on media reports. [But] we expect Indian authorities to share necessary information about him with us to enable verification of his national status,” he said.
Qazi made it clear that Pakistan had several times affirmed that terrorism was a common enemy and that a cooperative approach, rather than a blame game, is needed to combat the menace.
“Pointing fingers without investigations and evidence is not a healthy trend on the part of Indian media,” he said.
