A senior Indian military commander in Kashmir says Pakistan’s main spy agency was involved in a deadly bomb attack in the disputed region that killed more than 40 Indian troops last week.
The car bomb attack, which was claimed by the Pakistan-based militant group the so-called Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), killed the Indian paramilitary troops on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar on Thursday.
Indian Commander General K.J.S. Dhillon said on Tuesday that the attack “was being controlled from across [the frontier] by ISI and Pakistan and JeM commanders,” using a shorthand for the Inter-Services Intelligence, which is Pakistan’s main spy agency.
“The JeM is a child of the Pakistan army and the ISI. The attack was masterminded by Pakistan, ISI, and JeM,” he said.
Dhillon said New Delhi had tracked the masterminds of the attack but added that he could not be more specific about the suspected role of the Pakistani spy agency.