[Iran Press TV Latest] The US has rejected Islamabad's allegations that Indian agents were sneaking into Pakistan's insurgency-hit Baluchistan province from Afghanistan. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, said in an interview on Sunday that New Delhi was not using Kabul to destabilize Pakistan.
"Pakistan does not have to worry about Indians in Afghanistan. It has to worry about miscreants in western Pakistan," Holbrooke said.
Some senior officials in Islamabad say that New Delhi has deployed hundreds in Kandahar and other cities in Afghanistan to support insurgents in Pakistan's volatile southwestern province.
Earlier, Pakistan's Interior Ministry Chief, Rehman Malik, had said that Islamabad holds solid evidence of Indian involvement in its troubled Baluchistan province that borders Afghanistan.
Relations between New Delhi and Islamabad have gone from bad to worse since alleged Pakistani militants targeted several sites across India's port city of Mumbai last November, killing 179 people and injuring hundreds more.
Hundreds of people have died in insurgent violence in Baluchistan since 2004. Baluch nationalists have for decades campaigned for greater autonomy and control of the province's gas resources.
Taliban militants fighting in Afghanistan also operate out of Baluchistan but they have no links with the province's nationalists.
Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province in terms of area but its population is the smallest and the poorest.