India is supporting insurgents in Pak: Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has accused India of supporting insurgents in Pakistan, including areas bordering Afghanistan. Speaking with the German Press Agency dpa, Qureshi claimed that Pakistan was "compiling hard evidence of India's involvement and interference in Balochistan and Fata."
The FATA (the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) consists of eight districts along the Afghan border that have been plagued by Islamic militancy.
In Balochistan, a province in Pakistan's south-west, rebels rose up against the central government in 2004, demanding autonomy and a greater share of the profits from the region's natural resources. Military and civilian leadership have repeatedly alleged that India has been supporting the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group, an umbrella organisation of more than a dozen militant groups that is believed to be behind several dozen suicide attacks since 2007 from its heartland in the Fata district of South Waziristan.
"India should refrain from such nefarious activities," said Qureshi, speaking of India' alleged support of militants. "Unless (India) dispenses with its visceral animosity towards Pakistan, attaining viable peace and security in South Asia will be even more elusive," he added.
The statement came two weeks after Pakistani Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira and an army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas, told reporters that Pakistan had concrete evidence of Indian involvement in the South Waziristan militancy.
Abbas said a huge quantity of Indian arms and ammunition, medical equipment and medicines used by Taliban militants had been recovered from the restive district.
Qureshi complained that India was hesitating over resuming the peace dialogue even though his country was prosecuting the seven LeT members behind the Mumbai massacre. The trial against them "has now begun and we are pursuing it more vigorously," he said. "It is a very complex trial having both internal and external dimensions."
As the trial goes on, New Delhi should support Islamabad in its efforts against terrorists that have killed thousands of people in several dozen suicide bombings and other strikes across Pakistan, the foreign minister urged.
"We believe that sustained engagement and results-oriented dialogue is necessary," said Qureshi. "Breakdown of dialogue only works to the advantage of those who do not want to see peace in the region."
"There is no other alternative. It is for India to respond and reciprocate," he said. "Pakistan stands ready to resume the Composite Dialogue anytime and make lasting peace with India."