India wants goods relations but Pak has to take initiative: Rajnath

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : Jun 08 2018 | 9:20 PM IST

India wants good relations with all its neighbour, but Pakistan needs to take initiative and stop using it soil for promoting terrorism against India, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.

"As far as Pakistan is concerned, it is our neighbouring country. We want good relations with all our neighbours," Singh told a press conference here.

The Union Minister said that Pakistan needs to make efforts in this direction. "It should take the initiative by stopping use of its soil for aiding and promoting terrorism (against India)," he said.

He was replying a question on the possibility of resuming peace talks with Pakistan in the backdrop of a purported IB report detailing ISI plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Replying to another question with regard to security of Amarnath yatra in the

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First Published: Jun 08 2018 | 9:20 PM IST

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