In a fresh anti-India tirade, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has alleged that the assault on an Indian Army base in Uri that killed 18 soldiers was a “plan devised by India itself”. Maintaining that no proof implicating Pakistan in the Uri attack had surfaced yet, Asif told DawnNews that “it was evident the attack was a plan devised by India itself.”
He claimed that India “orchestrated Uri attack to divert the attention of the world from the Kashmir issue”.
India has said it has evidence showing involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in the Uri attack and demanded that Islamabad refrain from supporting and sponsoring terrorism directed against this country.