Pakistan’s inside minister on Tuesday accused neighboring India of orchestrating final 12 months’s automotive bombing in Lahore, close to the residence of a militant chief suspected of orchestrating lethal assaults in Mumbai in 2008.

Rana Sanaullah Khan stated at a information convention that a number of Pakistani suspects had been arrested, prosecuted and convicted by Pakistani courts in current months over their hyperlinks to the June 2021 bombing, which killed three folks. The explosion went off close to the house of Hafiz Saeed, who’s the founding father of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba group.

The inside minister stated Pakistan, with the assistance of INTERPOL, will search the arrest of Indian intelligence operatives they think of being behind the assault close to Saeed’s residence. Saeed, a Pakistani, is serving a jail time period in Pakistan on expenses of financing anti-India militants. He stated Pakistan had strong proof about India’s position within the bombing.

The Indian External Affairs Ministry couldn’t be reached for remark.

Saeed had been designated a terrorist by the U.S. Justice Department after the 2008 bombing and has a $10 million bounty on his head. Saeed’s Lashkar-e-Taiba was energetic for years primarily within the disputed Himalayan area of Kashmir, which is break up between Pakistan and India and is claimed by each in its entirety.

In the Indian-controlled sector of Kashmir, rebels have been preventing in opposition to Indian rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris help the insurgent purpose that the territory be united both beneath Pakistani rule or as an impartial nation.