Indian MEA spokesperson has rejected Pak NSA’s claim that India has offered to hold talks

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he Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has categorically rejected Pakistan National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf’s claim that ‘India offered to talk’. Addressing the media, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava called the claim misleading and fictitious.

“Let me make it clear that no such message was sent from our side,” Anurag Srivastava said during a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday.

In an interview to an Indian news website, Pak NSA had said India sent a message to Islamabad expressing its “desire for a conversation”.

The MEA spokesperson claimed that the Pak NSA’s bluff was an attempt to divert attention from his government’s domestic failures.

“This is Pakistan’s effort to divert attention from domestic failures of the present government and mislead its domestic constituents by pulling India into headlines on a daily basis. The official [Pak NSA] is well advised to restrict his advice to his establishment and not to comment on India’s domestic policy. The statements made by him are contrary to facts on the ground, misleading and fictitious,” MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said.

“Pakistan continues to support, aid and abet cross-border terrorism against India and has also been resorting to unprovoked ceasefire violations to support terrorist infiltration,” the MEA official said.

“The Pakistani leadership continues to indulge in inappropriate, provocative and hate speech against India. Such support to terrorism against India and the use of derogatory and abusive language is not conducive to normal neighbourly relations,” he said.

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