New Delhi: India has firmly dismissed allegations made by the Pakistani military, accusing New Delhi of orchestrating a deadly suicide attack on a Pakistani army convoy in North Waziristan. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), in a sharp rebuttal issued on Thursday, condemned the claim as “absurd” and “devoid of any credibility.”
The incident, which occurred on June 28 in the conflict-prone district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, involved a suicide bomber ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a convoy of the Pakistani army. The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 soldiers and left at least 10 other military personnel and 19 civilians injured, according to local administrative sources.
In the absence of any group claiming responsibility for the assault, Pakistan's military establishment swiftly pointed fingers at India, accusing it of fomenting unrest along the western border. The statement from Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) sought to implicate India in what it described as a “terrorist act aimed at destabilizing national security.”
India, however, wasted no time in rejecting the accusation outright. “We have seen the official statement from the Pakistani military regarding the June 28 Waziristan attack, which attempts to assign responsibility to India,” said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. “We reject this statement with the contempt it deserves.”
Jaiswal emphasized that Pakistan’s repeated attempts to externalize its internal security failures have become a predictable pattern. “Such baseless allegations do not reflect the seriousness expected from a responsible state, especially one battling endemic terrorism within its own borders,” he added.
Analysts view this diplomatic flare-up as part of a familiar blame game Pakistan resorts to in the wake of major internal security failures. The region of North Waziristan has long been a volatile hotspot, often witnessing attacks from extremist factions with little accountability or oversight. India’s official stance has consistently been that the roots of such violence lie in Pakistan’s own failure to dismantle terror networks operating on its soil.
With bilateral ties between the two nations already strained, this latest exchange underscores the fragility of regional peace efforts and the entrenched mistrust that shadows any dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad.