Pakistan's Ambassador refused to cooperate with Bosnia and have their authorities check the fingerprints of illegal migrants in the country, even though Bosnia already uncovered two terrorists among the migrants based on their fingerprints, Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic said Friday.

Radoncic's statement came after Bosnia's Bosniak Presidency member Sefik Dzaferovic and Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic met with Ambassador Muhammad Khalid Rao. Dzaferovic criticised Radoncic's Wednesday statement in which he said the Ambassador of Pakistan could be declared persona non grata unless he cooperates with Bosnian authorities.

“We begged the Ambassador of Pakistan as well as ambassadors of other states from which we have a large influx of migrants to go through their databases and send us identities of migrants who will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken once they enter one of our migrant centres. The Ambassador refused to reveal their identity based on those data and photographs. And I will say that based on the fingerprints we gathered, we uncovered two terrorists among the migrants. Their fingerprints were found on weapons and weapons cases in a third country. Our security service did a fantastic job,” Radoncic said.

According to the press release from the Presidency, Ambassador Rao informed the Presidency Chairman that the Embassy of Pakistan is ready to fully cooperate with the Bosnian institutions in the fight against illegal migration and that this commitment never was and never will be brought into question.