Rajnath Singh in Pakistan Modi has lost mental balance: AAP
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is in Pakistan to attend a meeting of home ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries. He left on Sunday and the substantive discussions will be held on Monday. Singh is expected to raise the issue of cross-border terrorism. At the 13th Saarc Summit in Dhaka in November 2005, the heads of state decided that home ministers would meet annually, preceded by a meeting of home secretaries, to strengthen cooperation in counterterrorism. The first meeting of Saarc home ministers was held in Dhaka on May 11, 2006, followed by a meeting in New Delhi in 2007.
The Islamabad meeting comes amid a virtual shutdown of Kashmir after the killing of Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant. Earlier this week, in a statement in Parliament, Singh had squarely blamed Pakistan for the disturbances in Kashmir.
This is the first visit to Pakistan by senior Indian minister after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lahore trip in December last year. accused BJP and RSS of a “concerted conspiracy” to hound Dalits, minorities, writers, actors and whoever dissents against the Modi government and wondered whether Parrikar’s job is to protect India from external aggressors like Pakistan or threaten fellow countrymen. "RSS & Parrikarji want to teach everyone a lesson. Here's a lesson for you: hate is the preserve of the coward and it never wins," Gandhi said on Twitter. Parrikar had on Saturday said anyone speaking against the country must be “taught a lesson”. After the arrest of its Narela MLA Sharad Chauhan, 12th AAP legislator to be arrested by police, the AAP on Sunday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking whether he (PM) has lost his "mental balance" and wondered whether the country is "safe" in the hands of a person who acts with such "vengeance". AAP's Ashish Khetan alleged the PM spends his every waking moment in plotting the 'fixing' of all his political opponents. He further alleged Modi appears to be concerned only with political persecution.