In 2016, Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI was involved in the conspiracy to carry out the terrorist attack on the Indian Army base in Uri.
There are many revelations regarding this in the new book ‘Anger Management’ by former diplomat Ajay Bisaria. 19 soldiers of the Indian Army were martyred in the Uri attack.
According to the book, immediately after the attack, America had handed over evidence to Pakistan regarding the role of ISI in it.
The US Ambassador to Pakistan met then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the incident in September 2016. During this, he handed over a file in which apart from many other things, there was also evidence that this attack happened with the connivance of ISI.
The evidence presented by the US ambassador was so credible that it prompted Sharif to confront the Pakistani army.
After this, a series of events happened rapidly and in 2017, the PML-N party chief was removed from his post. Sharif was eventually forced to go into self-exile in 2018.
This book tells many new things about what role the US played after the Uri attack. However, Bisaria has not written in the book the name of the US envoy to Pakistan who met Sharif.
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India tried to improve relations but…
In January 2016, there was a terrorist attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot.
Pakistan’s terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed was blamed for this also. Earlier, India was trying to warm relations with Pakistan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent an invitation to Nawaz Sharif to attend his swearing-in ceremony in 2014. He had gone to Lahore in 2015 to attend the wedding of Sharif’s granddaughter.
But, these attacks derailed India’s efforts. Now there is no possibility of softening of relations between the two countries.
Sharif called a meeting after receiving input from US
It is written in the book that Sharif was disappointed with the information given by America on the role of ISI in the Uri attack. He called a meeting of civilian and military leaders at the Prime Minister’s Office to discuss the matter.
The then Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Aijaz Ahmed Chaudhary gave a presentation in which it was said that the country was facing diplomatic isolation. After investigation of Pathankot attack, action is being demanded against Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Pakistan’s newspaper Dawn first published the report regarding this meeting in October 2016.
A controversy arose regarding this which came to be known as ‘Dongate’. Bisaria writes, ‘The angry and embarrassed Pakistani army saw this as a turning point. As if a citizen was rocking the boat and questioning the well-thought-out policy of sending terrorists into the neighbourhood.
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