India on Thursday came down heavily on Pakistan’s “terror sponsor” allegations against New Delhi and said Islamabad has “zero credibility” when it comes to crossborder terrorism.
The ministry of external
affairs (MEA), responding to Pakistan’s allegations, said it rejects them and “no one is fooled” by the country’s “assumed victimhood” due its track record as a “state sponsor of terrorism for decades”.
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#WATCH | Delhi | On Pakistan, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, "We reject such baseless allegations. It has become second nature for Pakistan to blame India for its misdeeds. As a state sponsor of terrorism for decades, Pakistan has zero credibility when it comes to… pic.twitter.com/oGdYiKmTgF
— ANI (@ANI) March 12, 2026
“We reject such baseless allegations. It has become second nature for Pakistan to blame India for its own misdeeds. As a state sponsor of terrorism for decades, Pakistan has zero credibility when it comes to cross-border terrorism. No amount of storytelling is going to alter this reality, nor is anyone fooled by Pakistan’s assumed victimhood,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during a press briefing.
WHAT DID PAKISTAN SAY?
Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of sponsoring terror “proxies” from Afghan soil, especially now that it is engaged in a war with the neighbouring country that followed days of border tensions.
Islamabad has said New Delhi uses Afghanistan as a strategic base to sponsor terrorism and destabilise the region. During a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) briefing on March 9, Pakistan’s permanent representative ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad explicitly accused India of “actively supporting and sponsoring” militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) from within Afghan territory.
Last month, it was Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif who labelled the Taliban-led government in Kabul an “Indian proxy”. He alleged that India has “penetrated” the Taliban leadership to ensure they remain unwilling to crack down on TTP militants.
During that same month, Pakistan launched air strikes inside the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Paktia, killing more than 180 people in TTP bases. Islamabad dismissed New Delhi’s condemnation of these strikes as a move to protect Indian “investments” in Afghan-based terror.
Pakistani officials have increasingly characterised India’s diplomatic engagement with the Afghan Taliban, including the October 2025 visit of the foreign minister to New Delhi, as a strategic attempt to create a “second front” against Pakistan. Islamabad claims to possess “conclusive and irrefutable evidence” of this collusion, reportedly including the confiscation of modern, military-grade equipment from militants that traces back to Indian interest channels.
