India has dismissed Pakistan’s claim that New Delhi hasn’t shared enough evidence with the country on the Pulwama terror attack. Earlier this week National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against 19 people, out which 7 are Pakistani Nationals, including Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.
Reminding Islamabad that the organization and leadership of JeM, which had taken the responsibility of Pulwama attack, is “in Pakistan”, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Shrivastava said, “It is regrettable that Masood Azhar, the first accused in the charge sheet continues to find shelter in Pakistan. Enough evidence has been shared with Pakistan but it continues to evade responsibility.”
The MEA said, “The charge sheet has been filed after investigation of a year-and-a-half since the attack took place on February 14, 2019. It has been filed to address the act of terrorism and to bring perpetrators of such a heinous crime to justice.”
The development comes after Pakistan reacted to NIA’s charge sheet saying India’s evidence to it was “incomplete, patchy and unsubstantiated”.
Over 40 soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a security convoy with a car full of explosives in February last year. Ahead of filing the charge sheet, an NIA official had said,
