India to raise issue of Pak terror support
Pakistan's sustained support to cross-border terrorism will be raised by India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day visit to Islamabad to attend the Saarc ministerial conference beginning August 3.
Rajnath, who will attend the Saarc Home Interior/Home Ministers' conference, is expected to bluntly ask Pakistan to stop sponsoring acts of terror in India, official sources said.
This will be the first visit to Pakistan by any senior Indian leader after the Pathankot attack on January 2, which created tension between the two countries.
The home minister may provide documentary proof of the involvement of Pakistan's state and non-state actors in terror acts in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts during separate meetings he is likely to have with his counterpart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Describing Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani in Kashmir as "martyr", Sharif had recently said that "Kashmir will one day become Pakistan", prompting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to say that his dream of the state becoming a part of his country "will not be realised even at the end of eternity". Rajnath Singh will also raise the issue of slow pace of probe into terror attack in the Pathankot airbase, which was carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad.
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