By: Eastern Eye Staff
“We reject the declaration (released by member countries) at the BRICS Summit,” Pakistan’s defence minister Khurram Dastgir said during a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence. Dastgir claimed that Pakistan has no “safe haven” for terrorists on its soil. Under mounting international pressure to act against the terror groups, Pakistan rejected a declaration by the BRICS nations, including China, saying there was no “safe haven” for terrorists on its soil. Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations at the BRICS Summit in China’s Xiamen yesterday and expressed concern over threat posed by terror groups,…
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