NEW DELHI – India has responded to the talks offer from Pakistan.
India on Thursday said the onus was on Pakistan to create conduciveconditions for talks by taking steps such as action against terrorists andterror infrastructure operating from its soil, PTI has reported.
During a media briefing, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson RaveeshKumar reiterated India’s stand that talks and terror cannot go together andsaid this was one of the reasons why the scheduled meeting in New Yorkbetween the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan was cancelled.
Barely 24 hours after agreeing to the engagement, the government had calledoff the meeting last month, citing the brutal killings of three policemenin Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad releasing postage stamps “glorifying”Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani.
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Asked if there was any message or signal from the Pakistani side for talks,Kumar said, “I am not aware of any proposal for a track 1 or track 1.5dialogue or a meeting between India and Pakistan.”
“The onus is on Pakistan to take credible steps, to create conduciveconditions, for such talks which of course means taking action againstterrorists, taking action against terrorist infrastructure which operatesfrom its soil,” he said.
