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Pakistan dismisses boat issue as 'silly allegation'

Islamabad: Pakistan today dismissed as a “very silly allegation” India's assertions that the boat which exploded off the Gujarat coast belonged to it.“I think this is a very silly allegation. We have checked with our

PTI PTI Updated on: January 05, 2015 22:05 IST
pakistan dismisses boat issue as silly allegation
pakistan dismisses boat issue as silly allegation

Islamabad: Pakistan today dismissed as a “very silly allegation” India's assertions that the boat which exploded off the Gujarat coast belonged to it.

“I think this is a very silly allegation. We have checked with our authorities, no boats from Pakistan left,” Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said.

“We saw the boat burn, it did not blow up. There have been various contradictory claims,” she told an Indian TV channel.

Amid questions over the ‘boat' operation, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said in New Delhi that “circumstantial evidence” indicated that the occupants of the vessel were “suspected or possible terrorists” and that they were in touch with Pakistani maritime officials and army.

He dismissed the contention that the four people on board the boat, which “exploded” and sank in the Arabian Sea in the intervening night of December 31 and January one during an Indian Coast Guard operation, were smugglers.

 

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