India not impressed, says ‘cosmetic steps’

India on Thursday slammed Pakistan’s crackdown against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and his aides as “cosmetic steps”, and said Islamabad’s sincerity will be judged on the basis of its taking “verifiable, credible and irreversible action” on terror and not “half-hearted measures”.

A day after the Punjab Counter Terrorism Department inPakistan registered 23 cases relating to terror financing and facilitationagainst Saeed, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar saidIndia has seen such actions by Pakistan earlier too.

   

“Let us not get fooled by these cosmetic steps. We haveseen the course of such actions in the past. We have seen where it goes, whereit is headed. Pakistan’s sincerity to take action against terrorists and terrorgroups will be judged on the basis of their ability to demonstrate verifiable,credible and irreversible action on terror and terrorist groups operating fromtheir soil, and not on the basis of half-hearted measures that they undertaketo hoodwink the international community,” the spokesperson said.

He said what India is asking is “very simple. We want anormal relationship in an environment free from terror.”

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