RAW funding Fitna al Hindustan: Bugti

Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti has stated that India's intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), is sponsoring the terrorist group "Fitna al Hindustan" to destabilise Pakistan.
Addressing a news conference in the provincial capital alongside Provincial Minister for Planning and Development Zahoor Ahmed Buledi and Balochistan Chief Secretary, the chief minister said that India's intelligence agency RAW is actively supporting terrorist groups to destabilise peace in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan.
He added that the group was "purely terrorist" and has no connection to the Baloch people or the province of Balochistan.
During the news conference, misleading reports by Indian media were also shown, including false claims about Karachi Port amid recent tensions between Pakistan and India.
Audio recordings of Fitna al Hindustan operatives Shanbay and Rehman Gul were also played for journalists, in which they could be heard exchanging information with their RAW handlers.
The chief minister further said that the terrorists responsible for the killing of innocent children in Khuzdar were acting under the instructions of Fitna al Hindustan, with funding and directives provided by RAW.
"These terrorists are not representatives of the Baloch people; they are merely tools of RAW."
"India cannot tolerate Pakistan's growing economy and aims to harm us through proxy warfare," he said.
The chief minister dismissed reports of enforced disappearances.

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