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| Stop importing terror if you want to talk: India to Pakistan | | Talks on J&K | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 26: New Delhi has again asserted its position and authority and the United States that talks and terror could not go hand-in-hand and that if Islamabad was really interested in talks, it must behave and stop exporting terror into India in general and J&K in particular.
Soon after his reelection for another five years with a historic mandate (353 seats, including 303 of the BJP itself), Narendra Modi government acted and acted firmly as far as its stand on Pakistan and terrorism was concerned. The Indian Ambassador to the United States (US), Harsh Vardhan Shringla, said that "India will not hold any talks with Pakistan until it gives up its state policy of supporting terrorism".
Ambassador Shringla reportedly underscored that "the onus of the peace talks to improve bilateral relations between the two South-Asian neighbours ties" and further stressed that "the day Pakistan adjourns terrorism as a means of achieving its end, 'I think the government will be within its mandate' to start a better relationship with its western neighbour".
"As long as any country uses terrorism as an instrument of state policy and India continues to be at the receiving end of that policy, no Indian government will get a mandate from the people to reach out to that country, he told to a group of American reporters, Ambassador Shringla said.
Pakistan's PM Imran Khan on Thursday (May 23) had congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his unprecedented victory and expressed his desire to "work with him for bolstering peace and prosperity in the region". The same day, NC president Farooq Abdullah had also urged PM Modi to start talks with Pakistan so that peace was restored in South Asia. Farooq Abdullah vouched for talks with Pakistan after he was declared elected from the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency. On Friday, PDP president and former CM Mehbooba Mufti, who suffered humiliating defeat from the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq had expressed similar views.
It's obvious that the stand of the Narendra Modi government on talks and terror must have rattled the Abdullahs and Mufti.
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