ISLAMABAD - National Security Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua yesterday told US Ambassador David Hale that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) are patronising terrorist groups to attack soft targets in the country.
Janjua conveyed the message to the US ambassador at a meeting on Wednesday.
The meeting was held to discuss the terrorist attack on Police Training College Quetta, counter-terrorism operations and cross-border attacks. Gen. Janjua also emphasised on the need to break the nexus between terrorists groups operation under the supervision of NDS and RAW.
Pakistan has asked for US assistance to tackle the situation.
The NSA informed the US ambassador that the terrorists who attacked the police training college were constantly in contact with their leadership and handlers in Afghanistan.
The American ambassador was also briefed by the NSA on Pakistan’s efforts to improve the current security situation in the country through implementation of the National Action Plan.
Hale, on the occasion, condemned the attack in Quetta and offered his regrets. He also offered American support for the same.
Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 61 people and wounding at least 117, in the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country's history.