{"id":23598,"date":"2025-06-29T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23598\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:29:14","slug":"waziristan-attack-mea-rejects-pakistan-army-claim-says-statement-deserves-contempt-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23598\/","title":{"rendered":"Waziristan attack: MEA rejects Pakistan army claim; says &#8216;statement deserves contempt&#8217; | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/122137784.jpg\" alt=\"Waziristan attack: MEA rejects Pakistan army claim; says 'statement deserves contempt'\" title=\"AI image for representation\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>AI image for representation NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Sunday dismissed claims made by the Pakistan army blaming India for a deadly suicide bombing in North Waziristan, calling the statement \u201cdeserving of contempt.\u201dIn a response issued in the early hours of the day, the MEA said, \u201cWe have seen an official statement by the Pakistan Army seeking to blame India for the attack in Waziristan on 28 June. We reject this statement with the contempt it deserves.\u201dAlso read: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/pakistan\/explosive-laden-vehicle-rammed-into-convoy-13-pakistan-troops-killed-in-north-waziristan-suicide-blast-children-among-injured\/articleshow\/122127373.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Explosive-laden vehicle rammed into convoy&#8217;: 16 Pakistan troops killed in North Waziristan suicide attack<\/a>MEA&#8217;s response comes after at least 16 Pakistani soldiers were killed and more than two dozen people injured in a suicide bombing on Saturday. The incident occurred in North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when a bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a military convoy.\u201cA suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy,\u201d a local government official was quoted as saying to news agency AFP. He confirmed the death toll had risen to 16 from an earlier count of 13. The official requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.The blast also damaged nearby homes. \u201cThe explosion also caused the roofs of two houses to collapse, injuring six children,\u201d a police officer in the area told AFP.The attack was later claimed by the suicide wing of the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, a known faction of the Pakistan Taliban.Despite the group\u2019s admission, Pakistan\u2019s military suggested foreign involvement, with officials in Islamabad hinting at Indian links \u2014 an accusation New Delhi has now firmly denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI image for representation NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Sunday dismissed claims made by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[104,21365,4677,21364,1567,21358,4674,4675,21362,50,21357,21360,21363,21359,4676,21361,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-23598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-contempt-statement-mea","10":"tag-google-news","11":"tag-hafiz-gul-bahadur-pakistan-taliban","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-india-denies-involvement-in-bombing","14":"tag-india-news","15":"tag-india-news-today","16":"tag-mea-response-pakistan-claims","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-north-waziristan-bombing","19":"tag-pakistan-army-suicide-bombing","20":"tag-pakistan-military-foreign-involvement","21":"tag-suicide-bomber-kills-pakistani-soldiers","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-waziristan-attack-details","24":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764773043840509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}