New Delhi: India on Wednesday (May 21) firmly rejected Pakistan’s allegation of involvement in a terrorist attack on a school bus in Balochistan that killed three children, describing it as a diversionary tactic to “hide its own gross failings”.According to media reports, the incident took place in Khuzdar, where a suspected suicide bomber targeted a school bus carrying around 40 children early Wednesday morning.The attack killed three children, the bus driver and a security guard.While no group has claimed responsibility so far, Pakistan’s military media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), issued a statement accusing India of having “planned and orchestrated” the attack.“Indian terror proxies are being employed as a state tool by India to foment terrorism in Pakistan against soft targets such as innocent children and civilians,” the ISPR said.India swiftly dismissed the allegations as “baseless”.“India condoles the loss of lives in all such incidents. However, in order to divert attention from its reputation as the global epicentre of terrorism and to hide its own gross failings, it has become second nature for Pakistan to blame India for all its internal issues. This attempt to hoodwink the world is doomed to fail,” said external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.The attack and the accompanying accusation come ten days after India and Pakistan ended their four days of hostilities this month, when both sides used drones and missiles against each other.The escalation followed the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, where 26 civilians, mostly tourists, were killed by three or four gunmen.India held Pakistan responsible and announced a series of punitive measures, culminating in a May 7 strike on nine sites identified as terror infrastructure.Pakistan responded with its own strikes before a ceasefire came into effect on May 10.In March, Pakistan had also accused India of orchestrating the hijacking of and attack on the Jaffar Express in Balochistan, which left 64 people dead, including 13 civilians, 18 security personnel and 34 attackers.India had similarly dismissed those accusations as “baseless”, urging Pakistan to “look inwards instead of pointing fingers and shifting the blame for its own internal problems and failures on to others”.Meanwhile, India has declared another official at the Pakistan high commission “persona non grata for indulging in activities not in keeping with his official status in India”.This is the second expulsion of a Pakistani diplomatic staffer since the recent hostilities.Both officials were instructed to leave India within 24 hours.