Talk, defeat terrorists: Pak tell India
Talk, defeat terrorists: Pak tell India
Defence Minister denies knowledge of militant leader's threat to Pune.

New Delhi: India must not abandon talks with Pakistan because that would be a victory for terrorists, Pakistan’s Defence Minister said on Sunday.

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, who spoke to CNN-IBN from Islamabad, said both countries must go beyond the meeting of Foreign Secretaries on February 25. “If we stop talks then victory belongs to terrorists. They would have managed to derail the whole (dialogue) process,” he said.

“We have to ensure that talks go on despite the problems you are facing and we are facing. I wish we could get all those terrorists who are doing damage.” Mukhtar said India and Pakistan had a more ambitious target than Foreign-Secretary level talks but it was hurt because of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

“If the Mumbai incident had not happened we would have crossed many more limits.”

Mukhtar denied knowledge of Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Rehman Makki’s alleged statement that “Delhi, Pune and Kanpur” were on his organisation’s hit list.

“I did not listen to it so I cannot deny or own that statement. It has not appeared on Pakistani TV,” said Mukhtar.

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