Hyderabad, Nov 02: Terming as "very disappointing" Pakistan`s response to India`s fresh peace initiative, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today said there was "no evidence of sincerity" on Islamabad`s part in stopping cross-border terrorism. "Our confidence building measures aimed at improving people-to-people relations will be purposeful only if infiltration from across the border and the killing of innocents are stopped," Advani told reporters after reviewing the passing-out parade of the 55th batch of IPS probationers at National Police Academy (NPA) near here.


Pointing out that infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) was still continuing despite the hand of friendship extended by New Delhi, he said there were as many 28 attempts at infiltration in September alone and all of them were thwarted by security forces who eliminated over 200 terrorists during the period, an "all-time high" in one month. He reminded the neighbouring country of its responsibility to hand over 20 criminals named by India for their involvement in terrorist activity.

"Now that the United States government has declared Dawood Ibrahim as an international terrorist carrying out terrorist activities in India and working in conjunction with al Qaeda, it is high time that Pakistan handed them over to India to enable the law to take its own course," the DPM said.

Bureau Report