India has hit out at Pakistan for pursuing terrorism as an “instrument of state policy”, saying such a strategy was “flawed and self-defeating”.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is likely to meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu on the margins of a Saarc committee meeting, said, “Some countries presume they can pursue terrorism as an instrument of state policy without risks to themselves or to their standing in the international community. This is a flawed and self-defeating presumption.”