The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was summoned to the Pakistan Foreign Office on 11 March 1998 and a strong protest was lodged with him on the criminal terrorist acts perpetrated in Pakistan by the Research and Analysis Wing of the Indian intelligence. These state-sponsored acts of terrorism which included bombings and the detonation of explosive devices in crowded passenger trains had taken a tragic toll in terms of the loss of innocent lives, severe corporal injuries to unsuspecting civilians and damage to property. The government and the people of Pakistan would not be intimidated by such cowardly acts. They would continue to oppose and to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Terrorism as an instrument of state policy was a self-defeating exercise and "if it was not brought to an immediate end", India would have to face the consequences. The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was also told that such acts of criminal violence would only further vitiate the atmosphere in tension-ridden South Asia. It would also have grave implications for Pakistan-India relations. Just because there was a lack of effective government in India, its security agencies should not be allowed to undertake such terrorist and criminal activities.
Islamabad.
11 March 1998.