Resumption of CD with Pak difficult in current situation: Rao

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Mar 16 (PTI) Voicing concern over Pakistan's
inaction against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, including
Hafiz Saeed, India on Tuesday warned that its restraint should
not be confused with weakness and said it is "very, very
difficult" to resume composite dialogue at present.

"... please realise that there are groups in Pakistan
that continue to follow an agenda of violence, of hatred,"
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said at the Woodrow Wilson
Centre in response to a question from a Lahore-based Pakistani
national who asked why India was refusing to restart the
composite dialogue with Pakistan which itself was a victim of
terrorism.
"I did not want to bring the name of Hafiz Saeed and
Jamaat-ud-Dawah and the LeT ... we feel (they) continue to
roam, to speak, to be allowed unhindered access to media, to
channels to communicate that agenda (of violence).. that
effects us, our people are concerned about it," Rao said.
The general feeling in India right now is: "We have
suffered too much for too long," she said.
"It is very, very difficult to be convinced in such a
situation that we should set aside these concerns and just
move on. And that is why, I said when you talk of resuming
composite dialogue (it) becomes very, very difficult to do
that in the current situation," Rao said.
At the same time, she said the door for talks with
Pakistan had never been shut. (More) PTI LKJ
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