ISLAMABAD, 09 August 2021, (TON): Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri rejected reports published by Indian media which quoted an Indian official as saying that terrorists are waiting at launch pads to infiltrate into occupied Kashmir from Pakistan.

Chaudhri said in a statement  "we categorically reject the baseless allegations that Pakistan wanted to infiltrate so-called 'terrorists' via the Line of Control (LoC)."

In a report published earlier this week, Indian publication The Hindu quoted an unnamed security official as saying that 140 terrorists are waiting at launch pads to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir and the terror infrastructure across the LoC remains in place.

The report said "the Indian army had been noticing the continued presence of around 140 terrorists at the launch pads across the LoC, likely waiting to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, but the robust counter-infiltration grid had so far desisted them from making any such attempts."

The official said, according to The Hindu "they tried in the past, but had to return after alert jawans foiled their nefarious designs."

In his statement, Chaudhri said India's "smear campaign against Pakistan is well-known and was fully exposed" by EU DisinfoLab last year in its investigation titled Indian Chronicles.