Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has denied media reports of a Sri Lankan national being arrested on charges of allegedly spying for Pakistan, local media reported.

“This may be the recycling of a month old report claiming that some Sri Lankans were being used by Pakistani agencies to spy and to incite terrorism inside India,” the spokesperson had said during her weekly press briefing on Thursday.

“You must have seen a statement that came from Sri Lanka that no such thing ever happened. I would put this report in the same category,” the foreign office spokesperson has further stated, as reported by The Express Tribune.

According to a statement issued by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), Arun Selvarajan, a Sri Lankan National, was arrested on September 10.

India’s NDTV reported that intelligence officials were piecing together a picture which suggests that Selvarajan may have been deployed to collate a series of visual guides that could be used for a 26/11-type attack in Tamil Nadu. The landmarks targeted by Pakistani terrorists in Mumbai in 2008 had been filmed and photographed extensively by Pakistani national David Coleman Headley, who is now in jail in the US.

Selvarajan, who was arrested yesterday, allegedly routed his information via Skype and Viber to his Pakistani handlers at Colombo, NDTV further stated.  He had allegedly been paid lakhs of rupees; he used the ATM of a bank account held by his Pakistani handler in Colombo.