'Look inwards': India rejects Pakistan's claim linking it to 6 deaths in major attack on Karachi Rangers camp

India on Sunday firmly rejected allegations by Pakistan that it had played a role in the attack on a Sindh Rangers facility in Karachi, urging Islamabad not to "point fingers".

Calling the claim "baseless", a sharp response from Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal urges Pakistan to focus on eradicating the terrorism in its own backyard, rather than engaging in blame-games.

"Instead of pointing fingers at others, Pakistan would do better to look inwards, take credible action against the terror infrastructure on its territory and rid itself of its proclivity to rely on terrorism as an instrument of state policy," he wrote in the X post.

This comes after the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistan's military, claimed on Sunday that the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was behind the attack that killed three Rangers and injured four others.

The JuA men allegedly caused an explosion at the main gate of the camp, located in the densely populated Gulistan-e-Jauhar area, before trying to breach security forces at the perimeter, a Geo News report said, citing the ISPR statement.

In the resulting encounter, three JuA militants were also allegedly killed, while an Afghan-origin man was also captured in an injured state.

It is touted as the first major terrorist attack since October 2024, when two Chinese engineers were killed in a suicide attack near the Karachi airport by the outlawed insurgent Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).

The Saturday attack led to the authorities urging people to stay inside their homes and power cuts in some residential buildings and other areas, a local told PTI.

Notably, the JuA has mostly remained active in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in recent years, targeting civilians, security personnel, and government functionaries.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, however, on Saturday accused India of using "proxies" in an attempt to undermine peace and stability in Pakistan, without providing specific evidence to back up these claims.