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  • Pak denies Udaipur killing accused’s hyperlinks to Karachi-based Islamist outfit

    A day after the homicide of a Hindu tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, in Udaipur, Rajasthan Police mentioned that Ghouse Mohammad, one of many two accused within the case, had gone to Karachi in Pakistan in 2014 and had hyperlinks with Dawat-e-Islami. However, Pakistan in a press release on Wednesday rejected the report calling it “misleading” and an try and “malign” the nation.

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    “We have seen reports in a segment of the Indian media referring to investigations into the murder case in Udaipur, mischievously seeking to link the accused individuals, Indian nationals, to an organisation in Pakistan,” mentioned Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, spokesperson, Pakistan Foreign Office.

    Adding that such “insinuations” are “typical of the BJP-RSS ‘Hindutva’ driven Indian regime’s attempts at maligning Pakistan including by externalizing their internal issues through pointing of fingers towards Pakistan.”

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    The ugly homicide of the tailor on June 28, who had reportedly shared a publish on social media in assist of BJP official Nupur Sharma has shaken the nation. While the perpetrators, Mohammad Riyaz Attari and Ghouse Mohammad, have been caught; the investigations have thrown up extra particulars concerning the connections of one of many accused with Pakistan’s Dawat-e-Islami organisation.

    “One of the accused, Ghouse Mohammad, has links with the Karachi-based Islamist organisation Dawat-e-Islami. He had visited Karachi in 2014. So far, we have detained five people, including the two prime accused,” Rajasthan DGP ML Lather was quoted as saying.

    But, the Pakistani overseas workplace spokesperson mentioned, “Such malicious attempts will not succeed in misleading the people, either in India or abroad.”

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