Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh reached the capital on Wednesday, making it the first visit to Pakistan by any high-level Indian official after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pakistan past year.
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The SAARC Terrorist Offences Monitoring Desk, established in Colombo in 1995, collates, analyses and disseminates information about such crimes, tactics of terror groups, their strategies and methods. In his address at the SAARC meeting, Mr Rajnath Singh had asked Pakistan not to glorify the killings of terrorists, and don’t make them martyrs. Only Pakistan state PTV was allowed to cover introductory speeches of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan.
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, the chief the Lashkar-e-Taiba, also led an anti-India rally in Lahore where he lashed out at the Pakistan government for allowing Rajnath Singh to visit Islamabad.
Singh also spoke about how he was received at the airport.
Addressing the one-day Interior/Home Ministers Conference of SAARC countries here, Khan equated the use of force by Indian security forces with “terrorism”.
He said that as Home Minister, India’s prestige was paramount for him and he did what should have been done by him. “We have always tried to work out our ties with them”, said Singh.
Speaking in Hindi at the conference, Singh said there should be the strongest possible action taken not only against terrorists or organisations, but also against those individuals and nations supporting terrorism.
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The Convention includes ensuring effective measures so that those committing terrorist acts do not escape prosecution and punishment, and are extradited or prosecuted.
“We encourage regional dialogue regarding counterterrorism efforts”.
He said that the world needed to believe that “attempts to distinguish between “good” and “bad” terrorists are misleading”.
“Our side was definitely successful in putting across our views on all these important matters and how it is important for SAARC to have a united approach”, he asserted while referring to Rajnath’s speech. “I hope that “soon” is actually soon”.
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Singh arrived here by a BSF plane at around 4.30 PM and cancelled his scheduled press briefing at the airport to meet Modi, they said.
