NEW DELHI: Hitting out at Pakistan over its strong comments on Kashmir situation in the wake of killing of militant Burhan Wani, India today accused it of not only infiltrating terrorists but also fanning discontent within the Valley by providing support to terrorist outfits.
Asserting that Wani issue was internal to India, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said Pakistan has no locus standi in the matter and asked it to refrain from interfering in it.
Asked if there was a shift in Pakistan strategy vis-a-vis Kashmir where one sees increase in number of ‘home-grown militants’, he said, “It is part of the continued strategy of Pakistan of not only infiltrating terrorists from across the border but also fanning discontent within the Valley by prodviding various support to terrorist outfits.”
Terming Pakistan’s continued effort to internationalise the Kashmir issue as “a self-serving exercise towards narrow political end”, Swarup said the world has a clear view about which country in the region covets the territory of others, uses terrorism as state policy, provides sanctuary to UN- designated terrorists and terror groups and violates human rights.
“Terrorism is terrorism and no amount of justification on part of Pakiatan is going to change that,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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