India on Tuesday rejected as “ baseless and unfounded ” allegations made by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif linking a terror attack in Islamabad to New Delhi, saying that this was a “predictable tactic to concoct false narratives”.

Earlier in the day, 12 persons were killed and 27 were injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in the Pakistani capital. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that the attacker attempted to enter the court premises. After failing to do so, the man detonated the bomb close to a police vehicle.

Hours later, Sharif accused groups “instigated” by India of being involved in the bombing in Islamabad and in another attack in a college in the town of Wana in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Responding to the allegations, India’

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