Pakistan has been actively sponsoring terrorism in J&K and other parts of India. For several years, terrorists recruited, trained, financed and armed in Pakistan and POK have been infiltrated into India. Pakistan has also provided sanctuary to known anti-Indian elements and those declared as fugitives from the law in India. Pakistan has been provided detailed documentary evidence to establish the incontrovertible and irrefutable fact of its sponsorship of terrorism in India. We have consistently demanded of Pakistan that it should forthwith cease these activities and take practical steps on the ground to demonstrate its sincerity in this regard. Pakistan has also been asked to close down its training camps in Pakistan and Pak Occupied Kashmir (POK) and hand over terrorists and fugitives who have been given sanctuary in Pakistan. This demand was reiterated during the discussions between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan in October 1998 and between the Home Secretary and the Interior Secretary of Pakistan in November 1998. Regrettably, official Pakistan support to terrorists and organisations operating in J&K and other parts of India continues. Government remain firm in its resolve to take all measures necessary to fully safeguard the country's security and territorial integrity.

Government have made known Pakistan's sponsorship of official terrorism to the international community. As a result of our efforts, there is widespread international recognition of these activities by Pakistan. (Source: LSSQ No. 242 dated 16.12.1998 by S.P. Jaiswal)