Islamabad: Pakistan accused India for 2021 bombing near the Lahore residence of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, in which three people were killed and 22 injured. Addressing a press conference, Pakistan’s interior minister Rana Sanaullah said Islamabad has decided to bring its stance before the world and share evidence. Imran Mehmood, the main representative of Punjab's counter-terrorism department (CTD), accompanied the minister.
The CTD official said police had traced the suspect within 16 hours of the attack on June 23, 2021. “And within 24 hours we arrested three terrorists. The first was Peter Paul David. . . Sajjad Hussain, who was arrested alongside, was David’s assistant,” he said. “He (Peter) was affiliated directly with two RAW agents - Ali Budaish and Bablu Srivastava,” the CTD official alleged, adding his assistant had destroyed the phones used for communications to plan the explosion.
Mehmood claimed that owing to Peter's identification, Ziaullah, another terrorist, was apprehended and that Sami-ul-Haq, the attack's primary planner, was located with his assistance. “We also found out about Naveed Akhtar, who did the surveillance and selected the target,” the official said. “Naveed was a labourer in the Middle East and was in jail because he could not pay his fine,” Mehmood said. He claimed that a RAW agent approached Naveed and demanded payment of his fine in exchange for Naveed engaging in terrorist actions against Pakistan. He continued by saying that multiple terrorist plots were stopped as soon as Naveed was taken into custody.