Asking Islamabad to stop supporting and sponsoring terrorism before the world begins to treat it as a pariah, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani on Saturday said a new chapter in Indo-Pak relations could open if Islamabad hands over 20 terrorists wanted by India.
He said the terrorist attacks like that on the residence of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in Srinagar on Friday would not affect the government's resolve to achieve victory over terrorism.
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"A new chapter can be opened in Indo-Pak relations if Islamabad hands over Dawood Ibrahim and other 19 terrorists
whose list was given to Pakistan last year," Advani said while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of Antar-Rashtriya Sahyog Parishad in New Delhi.
Pointing out that the US government has declared underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as a 'global terrorist,' he said the external affairs ministry has again asked Pakistan to comply with India's demand of handing over the 20 terrorists.
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"Pakistan should think. It should either shun the path [of sponsoring terrorism]...or else the way the world is reacting, it
would be treated as a pariah," he said, adding "some countries are saying it, some others are not saying so yet."