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Terror infrastructure in Pak still intact: Rao

New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI) Asserting that the recent events
including two fidayeen attacks in Kashmir point to the
"undeniable" fact that terror infrastructure in Pakistan was
intact, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Sunday said it
has been an "instrument of state policy pursued by agencies
within Pakistan."
She said India was watching all these developments with
"great concern" in Kashmir, where militancy and violence is a
longstanding phenomenon accompanied by the rhetoric (from the
Pakistan side) against India.
"All the events you have seen over the last few days
basically point to the basic and undeniable fact that the
infrastructure of terrorism which operates out of Pakistan and
territory under Pakistan control has not been dismantled and
it continues to be directed against the Indian people," she
told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's 'Devil's Advocate' programme.
Asked if the groups, involved in carrying out attacks in
Kashmir, were getting assistance or support from Pakistani
establishment or state, she said, "I think the experience over
the last two decades would make it very clear to us that this
has been an instrument of state policy which has been pursued
by agencies within Pakistan."
On the recent Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's
rhetoric about fulfilling his father-in-law Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto's pledge for a thousand-year war to liberate Kashmir,
Rao said, "Rhetoric, militancy and violence, together they
make a very combustible combination". More PTI

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