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FM condemns acquittal of accused in Samjhauta Express bombing case
March 22, 2019

FILE PHOTO: FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi strongly condemning the acquittal of the accused in Samjhauta Express bombing case has termed the verdict as Indian version of sham justice.

In a tweet message, he said it is callously heedless to the families of forty-four Pakistani victims that all perpetrators of the heinous crime have been exonerated after 11 years.

Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has termed acquittal of Samjhauta terror attacks as historic injustice.

She briefed the Islamabad-based Diplomatic Corps on the injustice done to the forty-four Pakistanis killed in the Samjhauta Express terrorist attack in 2007 in India, with the acquittal of all four perpetrators, including Swami Aseemanand, in the Samjhota Terror Attacks.

Swami Aseemanand was the mastermind of the heinous attacks and is an activist of the Hindu terrorist organization, RSS, who had publicly confessed his involvement in the attack.

The Foreign Secretary stressed that despite repeated requests by Pakistan for a fair trial, after a lapse of more than 11 years, Indian courts have now exonerated the accused, which demonstrates how India protects terrorists who publicly confessed their odious crimes.