Talks not to be fruitful till Pak stops sponsoring terror: BJP

New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) India's major opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday said India's talks with
Pakistan would prove fruitless as long as state actors like
ISI and the army in the neighbouring country continued to
sponsor and abet terror against it.
"The situation that has developed recently in Indo- Pak
talks prove BJP's contention that their ISI and army are
involved in this state-sponsored terrorism... The Pakistan
government is working under ISI and army's pressure," BJP
spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said.
He maintained that talks between the two countries cannot
be held if terrorism is set aside from the agenda.
"Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said that talks should be held
with humanity. State-sponsored terrorism should end. Else
talks will be fruitless," Hussain said.
Defending the failure of Agra summit and Lahore bus
diplomacy during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
regime, Hussain said they did not succeed as the then BJP-led
government emphasised that terrorism was the main issue.
The BJP spokesperson argued that the recent statements of
Home Secretary G K Pillai and National Security Advisor Shiv
Shankar Menon, as well as confessions of Pakistani-American
LeT member David Coleman Headley only reiterate what his party
has been saying all along about involvement of Pakistan state
actors in terrorism against India.
He said the Pakistan government should take Headley's
statements seriously.
"The Pakistan agencies are in the know of all terrorist
attacks against India... What India said in Afghanistan
yesterday, it should have stated in Pakistan (during External
Affairs Minister S M Krishna's visit)," Hussain said.
Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna Tuesday told
Pakistan to take "seriously" the revelations made by Headley
on the Mumbai attacks and not "push them under the carpet".
Headley had told Indian investigators in Chicago that the
ISI was involved in the planning of the 26/11 attacks from
"beginning to the end".
Hussain also said Pakistan was also getting exposed in
Kashmir where it was "sponsoring the separatists". PTI RC
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