Addressing the issue of India-Pakistan ties in the backdrop of the Nagrota attack, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said that India “will never accept continued cross-border terrorism as the new normal”.
He further said that talks between the two countries can only resume after cross- border terrorism stops.
Talking about the Uri attack, he said:
Pakistan called for an international inquiry, we said we are happy even with their domestic inquiry, we gave them DNA, fingerprints. So why can’t Pakistan match this with its national database? That would be simplest thing to do, but Pakistan instead indulges in propaganda.
He further said that India has not received any request for a bilateral talk with Pakistan. “We are always in favour of talks but not in an atmosphere of terror,” he said.
Swarup also said that “it wasn’t India what scuttled the SAARC process but members unanimously wrote to (SAARC) chair Nepal that the atmosphere is not conducive”.
(Source: ANI)
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