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Amit Shah called it an example of India\u2019s \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 policy against terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amit Shah said that a large quantity of arms and ammunition, including hand grenades with Pakistan Ordnance Factory markings, pistols, cartridges and CCTV cameras used for espionage, were also recovered from the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that CCTV cameras used for espionage were also recovered from the arrested alleged militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Pakistan has rejected Indian Home Minister Amit Shah\u2019s claim that the Shehzad Bhatti network, a terror group supported by Pakistan\u2019s intelligence agency ISI, was dismantled before India\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan has rejected Indian Home Minister Amit Shah\u2019s claim that the Shehzad Bhatti network, a terror group supported by Pakistan\u2019s intelligence agency ISI, was dismantled before India\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pakistani Foreign Ministry says that such baseless and misleading statements cannot divert international attention from India\u2019s state-sponsored terrorism, target killings and sabotage activities in foreign territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, in a statement issued on his X account on Monday, claimed that the Modi government has dismantled the \u2018Shehzad Bhatti Network\u2019, a militant organization supported by Pakistan\u2019s intelligence agency ISI, before Independence Day, arresting more than 200 of its workers and foiling the organization\u2019s plans for sabotage attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[416,35,79,34,46],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-amit-shah","tag-india","tag-isi","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-army"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.5 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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