New Delhi, July 31 -- The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday said that Pakistan's Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs had acknowledged that the Mujahideen groups once "trained, funded, armed and sent to India" by the country's establishment had now turned against the state and were posing a challenge internally.

India hit out at Islamabad after reports claimed that more than 40 people were killed and several others injured during recent anti-government protests in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).

The remarks came after Sanaullah, in an earlier interview with Geo News, admitted that the protesters in PoJK were the same individuals who had previously been trained a...