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Ready to Talk on Terror not on Kashmir: India Tells Pakistan

He said the way people from these Pakistani regions “wished me well, gives me great joy”.

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“Pakistan has always been promoting terrorism”.

The spokesperson confirmed that the provincial government has asked the federal government to take up the said “confessional statement” at a proper forum to further expose the destructive role of the nuclear-armed neighbour in the province.

“It is time for empty posturing and empty shelling to be rooted out of our regional politics”, it added. “We’ve learnt to be patient”. “Pakistan has encouraged terrorism, and now they are facing consequences of that policy”, he said.

Referring to India-Pakistan ties, he said India made every effort in the last two years to improve relationship with Pakistan.

India would welcome a dialogue on contemporary and relevant issues in India-Pakistan relations.

Adopting a tough stance, India on Wednesday rejected Pakistan’s proposal for foreign secretary-level talks on Kashmir, asserting that terror remains the core concern and there was a need to talk about that.

However she did not respond to questions on the remarks by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address on Monday.

The 19th Saarc summit is scheduled to be held in Islamabad in November.

It said “things are spiralling from bad to worse” as Pakistan and India have engaged in a war of unsavoury words.

The Chief Minister said that so-called nationalist leaders caused bloodshed in Balochistan and disrupted the peace in the province.

He also placed blame on terrorist elements and criticised them severely by saying that for the sake of some money from Hindus, these elements martyred their own brothers.

They expressed their anger towards the campaign launched by the Indian PM and Baloch leader to defame Pakistan and project a bad image of Balochistan on the worldwide stage.

Bugti has high hopes from India and feels that the nation will do the necessary when Balochistan is in need, said the PTI report. “Problem is that the terrorism issue has become so central to the relationship that it makes the relationship hard to grow”, Jaishankar said in his address at the Foreign Correspondents Club here.

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He said the issue was still outstanding on the Security Council agenda for more than six decades.

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