India is not the only terror playground for Pakistan. From Paris to Riyadh, Pakistan hands in terror is getting proved beyond doubt even though Islamabad remains on a denial mode and blames India instead.
In latest developments, French authorities on Friday filed terror charges against two men, including Pakistani national Mohammad Usman, who are suspected to be members of the same militant Islamic State (ISIS) group cell that massacred 130 people in Paris last November, according to a judicial source in France. 35-year-old Pakistani Mohammad Usman and 29-year-old Algerian Adel Haddadi were charged with “criminal conspiracy with terrorists”, the source said of the men turned over earlier on Friday by the Austrian authorities.
This comes at a time when Saudi Arabia too is zeroing on Pak nationals for the recent terror attacks on the US Consulate in Jeddah. Contrary to PakForeign Office Spokesperson Mohammed Nafees Zakaria’s claims that the terrorist who carried out an attack on the US Consulate on July 4 was an Indian and not Pakistani, Saudi Arabia has detained three Pakistanis in this connection, and no Indian has either been picked up, questioned or under radar. It is also learnt that the local Saudi authorities have neither approached Indian Mission in Riyadh or the Post in Jeddah, nor have sent any communication regarding the alleged involvement of any Indian national in the suicide bombing at Jeddah. Hence, Zakaria statement appeared to be an attempt to revive a story carried in Pak media maliciously blaming an unnamed India for Jeddah bombing. But the story had not gained any traction.
On contrary, the Saudi Ministry of Interior Security Spokesperson said in a statement that “the suicide bomber who blew himself after the mid-night ofSunday (July 4, 2016) in Jeddah was expatriate Abdullah Gulzar Khan, a Pakistani national. He was born in Pakistan on September 15, 1981 and was living in Jeddah with his wife and her parents. He came to the Kingdom 12 years ago to work as a private driver.” The statement was released throughthe official press agency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SPA) and picked up by all the local newspapers -- both Arabic and English - which carried the news without mentioning any Indian angle to the incident.
In fact, the leading English daily Arab News carried a news item on Fridaysaying that “three Pakistani have been detained for interrogation for their alleged association with Abdullah Gulzar, the suicide bomber who blew himself up in front of the American Consulate in Jeddah in Ramadan.” The newspaper further stated that 13 people of three different nationalities including Pakistani, Palestinian and Saudi have been arrested between July 21-24, 2016 in this connection.
This apart, in December 2015, a Pakistani couple — Syed Rizwan Farook (age 28), and his wife, Tashfeen Malik (27) — was involved in killing 14 people in a mass shooting act in San Bernandino in California.
