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India has accused Pakistan of adopting double standards in its fight against terrorism — leading the fight on the western front in Afghanistan and being a perpetrator of the menace on the eastern side.
‘‘You can’t have double standards. In the western front, Pakistan is in the forefront in the fight against terrorism while it has become perpetrator of terrorism in the eastern front,’’ Arun Jaitley, Minister for Law, Justice and Commerce said last night.
Addressing the annual day function of the Overseas Friends of BJP (UK) at the SKLP Sports and Community Centre, Jaitley said the age of redrawing maps through terror tactics are over.
BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu cautioned that the headquarters of Taliban was shifting from Afghanistan to Pakistan and said ‘‘it is the greatest threat to peace in the region’’. ‘‘The Taliban didn’t believe in democracy. They want to destroy everything,’’ he said.
Naidu said the Indian Government has a two-pronged strategy to deal with the Kashmir issue. On the one hand, it wanted to resolve it through dialogue and on the other ‘‘crush terrorism mercilessly’’ and fight the battle against terrorism on its own. (PTI)
