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International community should act on Pakistan terror links: Jaitley
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Arul Louis | 25 Apr, 2017
Warning that most terrorism "across the world have some footprint" in
Pakistan, Indian Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said Monday
that the international community has to take action.
While
India's relations with its neighbours have improved, "our problem comes
from our western neighbour" because of terrorism, he said at the Council
on Foreign Relations here.
Every initiative by India to improve
ties with Pakistan have met with hostile reactions, the latest being the
"unprovoked gesture of a military court sentencing an Indian to death
through a kangaroo court process" in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav.
"I think that doesn't help the cause of peace in the region at all," he said.
Pakistan
has alleged that Jadhav was a spy for India and following his capture
under controversial circumstances in area near the border with Iran, a
military court handed him a death sentence.
"If you've seen all
our efforts over the last few years to normalize the relationship (with
Pakistan), we've seen a reaction," he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
"went there, and it was immediately followed up by an attack in
Pathankot air base in India, then an attack on our Uri military camp".
Answering
audience questions about the state of India's relations with
neighbours, Jaitley said economic relationship was an area of strength
with China and has picked up significantly, but border problems
persisted despite an initiative by then Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee to resolve them.
"We had a mechanism set up in order to
resolve the (issue) and define the border itself," he said. But over the
last 14 years, "the mechanism has not been able to come out with an
answer".
"We believe that it's important the border get settled,
because that's in the interests of regional peace," he added. "And
obviously, you'll have occasionally some issues arising because of that
unsettled situation."
China is now India's biggest commercial partner accounting for about $70 billion in annual bi-lateral trade.
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