US position on Pak-India tensions unchanged: State Department

Resorting to rhetoric ahead of the first-ever NSA-level talks, Pakistan has accused India of involvement in terrorism, saying “enemy” within the country gets money from overseas to create law and order problem. Modi was speaking about terrorists such as Dawood Ibrahim who has homes both in Pakistan and Dubai. He also stated that Pakistan has had to sacrifice its soldiers and citizens in this fight against terrorism. He warned against unnecessary debate on incidents of terrorism as, according to him, it creates hurdles in fighting anti-state elements.

Kirby said Prime Minister Modi has “every right to be concerned about the security of his country and his people“.

But “independence celebrations, I think, offer a good opportunity for everybody, whether they’re Indian or Pakistani, to kind of reflect on the challenges, the common challenges and security situation there between those two countries and inside those two countries”, he said. MQM chief Altaf Hussain had said that by resigning en masse his party’s lawmakers had rejected the “minus-one formula”. India is continuously violating ceasefire at the Line of Control and working boundary and targeting innocent civilians. “A response regarding the minus-one formula can only be given by the person who coined it”, Nisar said. He said terrorists were spreading anarchy and killing children and women in the name of Islam. He said government has allocated Rs 45 billion to civil armed forces for increasing their capacity to achieve their objective of eliminating terrorism.