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Pakistan’s record on terrorism is “very clear” and the Pahalgam attack is only the recent example of cross-border terrorism, the ministry of external affairs said .
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal’s remarks at his weekly media briefing in New Delhi came in response to a query on the recent comments made by a top US general on Washington’s ties with New Delhi and with Islamabad.
“We have to have a relationship with Pakistan and with India. I do not believe it is a binary switch that we can’t have one with Pakistan if we have a relationship with India,” US Army General Michael Kurilla, Commander of US Central Command, had said.
“We should look at the merits of the relationship for the positives that it has,” the US general said during a testimony before the US House Armed Services Committee.
Briefing the media in New Delhi, Jaiswal said, “The record of Pakistan, of what Pakistan is, is very clear”.
“We all know the Pahalgam attack is only the recent example of cross-border terrorism. I would remind you that only recently one of the conspirators of the 26/11 attack, Tahawwur Rana was extradited from the United States to India.
“Obviously, none of us have forgotten that Pakistan gave shelter to Osama bin Laden. It is significant that the person, and you would be aware, Dr Shakil Afridi, who helped locate Osama bin Laden, is still imprisoned by the Pakistani military,” he said.
