Islamabad: March 3rd is sad reminder of the deadly attack by India’s RAW funded terrorists on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009 and the arrest of high-profile Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in Balochistan in 2016. Interestingly, India has the connection in both the incidents, aimed at defaming Pakistan.
On 3 March 2009, Sri Lankan Cricket team was attacked by terrorists near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. It was the first time that cricketers had been directly targeted by terrorists. Several cricketers and coaching staff were injured, shattered the illusion that sportsmen were outside the terrorists’ agenda.
Exactly 40 days before the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, Crime Investigation Department (CID) Punjab had issued a threat alert about RAW’s plan to target the touring team to defame Pakistan. India had been using Afghan soil against Pakistan since 2001 by investing about $3 billion on infrastructure, training of Afghan forces and other projects to establish a network for its permanent foothold and to achieve its overt and covert designs.
Kulbushan Jhadav, serving Indian Naval officer had also confessed to series of terrorist activities planned and controlled from Afghanistan. PM Yousaf Raza Gillani had handed over a dossier to PM Manmohan Singh which contained proof of India’s involvement in “subversive activities” including the attack on the Sri Lankan Cricket team in Lahore.
The dossier had also list of the safe houses being run by RAW in Afghanistan where terrorists were trained and launched for missions in Pakistan. A description of Indian arms and explosives used in the attack on the Sri Lankan team had been made part of the dossier, besides which the names and particulars of the perpetrators, who illegally entered Pakistan from India and joined their accomplices who had reached Lahore from Waziristan, had been mentioned. The dossier also broadly covered Indian connection in terror financing in Pakistan.
According to experts, by sponsoring terrorism against Pakistan from Afghan territory, India had violated various Articles of the UN Charter including Article 2(4), Article 41(3) of the Vienna Convention, and Paras 2 and 5 of UN Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001. Web Desk
