India to expose Pakistan role in terror with dossier at UN

Within hours of Pakistan resorting to serial violations of the pause on hostilities achieved on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed the top security brass to maintain the highest state of vigil and decisively repulse any attempt to violate national sovereignty.

At the morning meeting, the first since India and Pakistan agreed to hold fire, the PM told the military leaders that the country will no longer condone the equation of victims of terrorism with the perpetrators.

Ahead of accepting Pakistan’s offer of a ceasefire yesterday, India had laid down a revised war doctrine stating that any terror attack henceforth would be treated as and responded to like an act of war. This was conveyed to Pakistan, said a top source.

The meeting at the PM’s residence was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan and the three service chiefs.

Besides conducting a broad assessment of preparedness in the face of an unreliable adversary, the meeting discussed India’s future plans to expose Pakistan’s complicity with terrorism and terror promoters globally.

A top government official said India would send its team to the United Nations Security Council in the coming week with a dossier detailing evidence on how Pakistan was “fuelling global terrorism”. The UNSC panel is to meet next week.

The Tribune was the first to report that the government had readied a dossier on Pakistan’s “export of terror” and would be raising the matter at an appropriate time.

At the UNSC’s 1267 Sanctions Committee meeting next week, India will share proof of Pakistan’s complicity with terrorism and terror perpetrators, said sources.

LeT proxy The Resistance Front has already claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, which led to Operation Sindoor. Though TRF subsequently retracted its statement, the outfit’s links with the dastardly attack are clear, said Indian officials.

The plan is to ask the sanctions committee to designate TRF as a terrorist organisation and take punitive measures to halt it by imposing wide-ranging sanctions against it including travel bans on TRF members.

“For decades, Pakistan soil has been used as a launchpad for cross-border terrorism, insurgency, and extremist ideology,” government sources said, adding the dossier against Pakistan would be comprehensive and would expand the position India took at the UN after the Pahalgam attack.

India had then said that Pakistan was a rogue state fuelling global terrorism and the world could no longer turn a blind eye to it.

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