Pakistan: Pakistan has demanded that the perpetrators and abettors of Samjhauta Express terrorist attack be brought to justice.

According to Radio Pakistan, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, in response to media queries regarding the 19th Anniversary of the Samjhauta Express Terror Attack, said this month, it has been 19 years since the horrific terrorist attack on Lahore-bound Samjhauta Express train on India's soil on 18 February 2007. He said sixty-eight innocent passengers, including 44 Pakistani nationals, lost their lives in the attack.

The Spokesperson expressed his severe disappointment at Indian Government's callousness towards the plight of the families of the Pakistani nationals who await justice even after the passage of nineteen years. This callous response confirms India's role as an official and political accomplice in the heinous terrorist attack carried out on its soil against innocent civilians-Pakistanis and others alike.

In this regard, The Government of Pakistan condemns the shameless acquittal and exoneration of all four perpetrators, including Swami Aseemanand, who publicly confessed to being the mastermind of the heinous attack, Lieutenant Colonel Purohit, a serving Indian Army Officer, and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

Tahir Andrabi said Pakistan is alarmed that the Hindutva extremism and "Saffron terror" that had motivated the inhuman attack nineteen years ago has intensified manifolds under the current regime in India.

He said families of the innocent Pakistani nationals, mercilessly killed at the hands of the Hindutva-motivated extremists deserve closure.

The Spokesperson said India routinely indulges in anti Pakistan propaganda, including by exploiting the bogey of terrorism. In this backdrop India's own systemic exoneration of the perpetrators of the Samjhota terrorist attacks is yet another example of Indian duplicity and state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan.