QUETTA: India and Afghanistan are supporting an insurgency in Balochistan, trying to bolster the leadership of separatists fighting the government, chief of the Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary force in Balochistan said on Saturday.
"A lot of evidence of Indian involvement through Afghanistan is there, supporting the separatist movement," Major General Salim Nawaz, inspector general of the FC in Balochistan, said.
General Nawaz said the separatists were not very strong as they did not have enough foot soldiers or a proper command-and-control structure. "The foreign element, especially the element there in Afghanistan, is trying hard to create more leadership," he said.
The FC chief said proof of Indian involvement had been provided. "The proof has been given at various levels ... Photographs have been provided," he said, but did not elaborate. |