India, Pakistan trade barbs

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of waging a proxy war on India, both sides traded barbs even as their foreign secretaries will be meeting in Islamabad on August 25.

"Terrorism for us is a danger. Modi was articulating our core concerns. These stem from that some worst terrorist attacks are taking place from Pakistan or are Pakistan-controlled," external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said here on Wednesday recalling the Parliament attack of 2001 and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Denying Modi's proxy-war statement, Pakistani foreign office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam said it was "baseless rhetoric."