India on Saturday rejected Pakistan’s “baseless and motivated allegations” over an infiltration incident along the International Border in Punjab’s Ferozepur sector, accusing Islamabad of facilitating illegal cross-border movement. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said it had summoned Pakistan High Commission Charge d’Affaires Saad Ahmad Warraich to lodge a strong protest over what it described as continued facilitation of illegal infiltration from Pakistan.
“The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today summoned the Charge d’Affaires of the Pakistan High Commission (Saad Ahmad Warraich) to lodge India’s strong protest over the continued facilitation of illegal cross-border infiltration from Pakistan. The MEA described the incident as part of a pattern of repeated cross-border movement involving armed narcotics syndicates operating from Pakistan. It urged the Pakistani government to investigate the infiltration attempts, drug-smuggling activities and alleged involvement of Pakistani border forces, and to take corrective action.
India also categorically rejected the baseless and motivated allegations regarding an incident in the Ferozepur sector of Punjab along the International Border on October 2,” the ministry said in a statement.
