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29/07/2016
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to Pakistan to attend the two-day SAARC Home Interior/Home Ministers' conference beginning August 3.
In addition to attending the SAARC meet, Mr Singh is likely to have bilateral meetings with his counterparts from other SAARC member-countries, including Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
He will be accompanied by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and several other senior officers of the Home Ministry.
During his talks with the Pakistani leadership as well as in his address to the conference, Mr Singh is likely to raise his voice against terrorism, illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and small arms and how to make coordinated and concerted efforts to combat such menace.
The Home Minister-level meeting is likely to also focus on strengthening networking among police authorities of SAARC member-countries and also enhancing information-sharing among law enforcement agencies.
The last meeting of SAARC Interior/Home Ministers' conference was held in Kathmandu in 2014. This would be the first ministerial level visit to Pakistan from India after the Pathankot airbase terrorist attack, which had almost derailed the peace process between the two neighbours. External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj had visited Islamabad on December 8-9 to attend Heart of Asia Conference. Pakistan's sustained support to cross-border terrorism will be raised by Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day visit to Islamabad to attend the SAARC ministerial conference beginning August 3.
Singh, who will attend the SAARC Home Interior/Home Ministers' conference, is expected to bluntly ask Pakistan to stop sponsoring acts of terror in India.
The Home Minister may provide documentary proof of the involvement of Pakistan's state and non-state actors in terror acts in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts during separate meetings he is likely to have with his counterpart ChaudhryNisar Ali Khan and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Describing Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani in Kashmir as "martyr", Sharif had recently said that "Kashmir will one day become Pakistan", prompting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to say that his dream of the state becoming a part of his country "will not be realised even at the end of eternity".
Key issues like fight against terrorism, illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and small arms and how to make coordinated and concerted efforts to combat such menace will figure in the SAARC meet.
The three-tier meeting will begin at the joint secretary- level and then move on to Secretary and Home Minister-level meetings.
The meeting will also focus on strengthening networking among police authorities of SAARC member-countries and also enhance information-sharing among law enforcement agencies.
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