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India reiterated its stand on any future resumption of talks with Pakistan unless it dismantles its terror infrastructure.

The Official Spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Randhir Jaiswal during his weekly media briefing on Thursday the 29th of May 2025 stated ‘talks and terror’ cannot go together.

Jaiswal rebuffed Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif’s offer of holding talks while adding that: “we (India) have been very clear and consistent in our position. I have said this in the previous presser last week, as also in the press engagement that we had on 13th of May.

“Our position in regard to Pakistan, in regard to engagement with Pakistan, has been clear and consistent. You are well aware of our position that any India-Pakistan engagement has to be bilateral.

“At the same time we are clear that talks and terror don’t go together.
“On terrorism itself we are open to discussing the handing over to India of noted terrorists, whose list was given to Pakistan some years ago.

“I would like to underline that any bilateral discussion on Jammu and Kashmir will only be on the vacation of illegally occupied Indian Territory by Pakistan.
“And on the Indus water treaty, it will remain in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism, as Prime Minister Modi has said.

“And I would like to repeat his words, “terror and talks cannot go together, terror and trade cannot go together, and water and blood cannot flow together.”

It may be recalled that on Monday last earlier this week Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif during his visit to Tehran apparently expressed his willingness to talk with India “to resolve ongoing disputes between the two countries, including the Kashmir issue and water security”.