India strongly rejects Pakistan Army’s allegation linking New Delhi to the suicide attack in North Waziristan that killed 13 soldiers. Tensions spike amid rising border violence.
New Delhi, June 29:
India has vehemently denied Pakistan’s accusation that it was behind the suicide car bombing in North Waziristan that killed 13 Pakistani soldiers. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called the claim “baseless and absurd,” issuing a sharp rebuttal late Saturday night.
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“We have seen an official statement by the Pakistan Army seeking to blame India for the attack in Waziristan on June 28. We reject this statement with the contempt it deserves,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
The attack took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, where a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy. According to local officials and the Pakistan Army’s media wing ISPR, 13 soldiers were killed, while 10 other troops and 19 civilians were injured. The powerful blast also caused the roofs of two nearby houses to collapse, injuring several children.
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While the Pakistan Army linked the attack to a group it identified as Fitna-al-Khawarij, no independent claim of responsibility has emerged so far. The explosion occurred just days after an intelligence-based operation in South Waziristan, where two Pakistani soldiers and 11 alleged terrorists were killed.
The incident marks another bloody chapter in Pakistan’s ongoing battle against armed militants operating along its porous border with Afghanistan. Violence has surged in this region ever since the Taliban took power in Kabul in 2021, with Islamabad repeatedly alleging that Afghan soil is being used to shelter and launch attacks against Pakistan. The Taliban has denied these claims.
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According to AFP, nearly 290 people, most of them security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan since January 2025 alone.
India has long accused Pakistan of shifting blame for its internal security failures onto external actors. The latest war of words comes amid already tense diplomatic relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
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