Mr Swarup made it clear that such letters do not whitewash cross border terrorism.
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He said that Indian intelligence agencies have remained involved in subversive activities in Pakistan especially Balochistan and Karachi.
Jaishankar summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit and issued a strong demarche on continuing cross-border terrorism from Pakistan.
It said Bahadur Ali, born on December 17, 1995, is the son of Mohammed Haneef, a resident of Jia Bagga village in the Lahore district of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
“We have rejected the allegations or claim of any infiltration across LoC”.
The demarche said India “strongly protests against the continued infiltration from Pakistan of trained terrorists with instructions to carry out attacks”.
During the marathon four-hour-long meeting, which comes in the wake of continued unrest in Kashmir after the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani on July 8, some opposition parties asked the government to take a few immidiate confidence-building measures like putting an end to the use of pallet guns and relaxing AFSPA in some parts of the valley.
Pakistan has chose to propose to India exclusive dialogue on Kashmir.
Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria, during his weekly media briefing, said that the investigation into the terror attack in Quetta was underway in which more than 70 people were killed and 100 other injured.
To a question, the Advisor said Kashmir would be on top of the agenda of Pakistan during forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly.
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is also a former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, also said that while the government’s response was fine, they would be satisfied only when peace is restored in the Kashmir Valley.
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Senior Government of Pakistan officials also apparently addressed letters to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), the President of the UN Security Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary-General of the OIC, urging the global community to address the alleged human rights violations by Indian authorities during protests in Jammu and Kashmir since July 8.
