India to Pakistan: ‘Give up Terror’ If You Want Talks

On Thursday, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told the General Assembly that India remained open to dialogue, “but talks and terror can not go together”. Mr Aziz rejected the allegation of supporting terrorists in India and said Pakistan is engaged in a massive military operation against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

Sooner or later, India would have to come round to the Pakistani point of view which calls for resolution of all issues through dialogue, he said.

He said “India is trying to avoid dialogue on one pretext or the other and since all doors have been barred, we were left with no option but to hand over the dossiers to the UN Secretary General”. Even if the audio and video evidence present in these files prove beyond doubt that India is indeed sponsoring state terrorism in Pakistan, nothing will change.

Swaraj, who was speaking a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had raised the settlement of the Kashmir issue again at the UNGA, said that the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack are still walking free in Pakistan which was an affront to the entire worldwide community.

“The heart of the matter is a state that regards the use of terrorism as a legitimate instrument of statecraft”, Singh had said.

He said that “the two countries should address and resolve the causes of tension and take all possible measures to avert further escalation” and for this, he was making the peace initiative proposal.

“The dossier include details of Indian interference and support for terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi as well as its security and intelligence agencies’ links with the TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban), especially in FATA (Federally-Administered Tribal Areas)”, Ahmad said.

Swaraj proposed a path forward: that the two governments’ national security advisers hold talks on terrorism, and senior military officers address the situation at the border. He said India had conveyed its willingness to talk but imposed preconditions, knowing that these would be unacceptable to Pakistan.

Earlier in his address at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), he said that Pakistan’s security environment now becoming conducive for upward economic trajectory.

She said this was precisely what was discussed and decided by the two Prime Ministers at Ufa this July.

Sharif referred to the recent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and asserted, “Wisdom dictates that our immediate neighbour refrains from fomenting instability in Pakistan”.