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``I was a RAW target''

Nirupama Subramanian

Accuses RAW of "starting a proxy war"

ISLAMABAD: The former Pakistan High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Bashir Wali Mohammed, has alleged that the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) was behind an attempt to kill him last month in Colombo.

Mr. Mohammed, a former director-general of the Pakistan Intelligence Bureau, escaped a claymore mine attack in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital, but there is no clear evidence yet that he was the target of the attack, with the Sri Lankan establishment appearing divided over the issue.

In an interview to The Post newspaper here, Mr. Mohammed, who returned after a two-year-tenure in Sri Lanka last week, said he was clearly the target. The view that the LTTE had tried to kill him because Pakistan was supplying arms to Sri lanka was wrong.

Mr. Mohammed, instead, accused RAW of "starting a proxy war in a third country by carrying out this lethal" attack.

Pakistan's new High Commissioner to Sri Lanka is Muhammad Shahzad, a retired Air Vice Marshal.

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