Pakistan on Tuesday said that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had established a cell in 2015 which was dedicated to sabotaging China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Pakistan.
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, alleged that “RAW established a new cell with a special allocation of over $500 million in 2015 to sabotage CPEC projects [in Pakistan].”
Hayat was addressing a seminar in Islamabad, Pakistan, Dawn reported.
“India’s indirect interference in Pakistan is manifested in sponsoring Tehreek-i-Taliban-Pakistan, Baloch and other sub-nationalist outfits and many other terrorist groups,” he added.
“India has set up a Balochistan operational cell under RAW to devise a radical force for subversion and terrorist activities in the province,” Gen Hayat further revealed, adding that the arrest of Kulbushan Jadhav from Balochistan had been the “proverbial smoking gun” in the matter.
Talking about establishing lasting peace in South Asia, Gen Hayat said that the road to peace in the region leads through Kashmir and that bypassing the issue will only hinder the peace process.
