Barely a couple of months after a severe beating at the hands of the Indian armed forces during Operation Sindoor, Pakistan is up to its old tricks against India.
A senior advisor in the Nepal government has warned that Islamist terror organizations based in Pakistan may try to exploit the porous Indo-Nepal border in order to carry out attacks in India.
The remarks were made during a seminar on challenges to regional peace and security in South Asia held in Kathmandu.
During his address, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, principal political advisor to the president of Nepal and former minister of industry, said Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) may use Nepal as a transit point for their terror campaign against India.
Nepal has been a hotbed of infiltration by Pakistan backed terrorists into India in the past, the most high profile incident being the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu which led to the release of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar.
Another notable case is the arrest of Abdul Karim Tunda, a top LeT operative involved in over 40 bombings in India, who was held on the India-Nepal border in 2013.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was nabbed by Nepal police and handed over to India in 2013.
In April last year, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh Police had apprehended two Pakistani nationals – Mohammed Altaf Bhat and Sayyed Gajanfar – along with their aide Nasir Ali, near the Nepal border.
A citizen of Nepal was among those who were killed on the basis of their Hindu faith by jihadis in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, in April this year.
