Washington: In a blunt warning to Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao declared  that India’s restraint should not be seen as weakness and that it can deal effectively with those pursuing “destructive agendas” against it. “Despite the provocations we have face constantly from terrorist whose linkages we have traced back to Pakistani soil, we have not abandoned the path of dialogue.” Rao said in an address Monday at the Woodrow Wilson center, a renowned Washington think tank. Rao said that like the US administration, “India, too, is concerned at the terror infrastructure that has been allowed to be established, take root and be used as instrument of state policy in our immediate neighborhood.” “Our heartland, our cities and our people are exposed to the threat of terrorism in constant and almost unremitting way in a manner the US well understands, given the similar threats directed against the American people,” she said… India will also not scale down operations in Afghanistan despite terror attacks on its interests, she said…

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