The separatist movement in Pakistan’s Balochistan province is fuelled by the country’s domestic policies and not India, a top US official said today.
“I don’t think that the existence of a terrorist or a separatist movement in Balochistan is fuelled by Indian financing or anything like that,” the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Mr Robert Blake, said.
“I think it’s fuelled by domestic issues that are internal to Pakistan,” he said in his interaction with Defence Writers Group here.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of supporting the rebels in Balochistan to destabilise the country. India, however, has categorically denied the allegations.