Interior Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Islamabad on Aug. 3 but will not have a separate meeting with the Pakistani host of the meeting of interior ministers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). "Pakistan easily finds a reason to start violence in Kashmir and we don’t want to engage with them at this juncture," a senior interior ministry official in New Delhi said. However, the head of an anti-Indian movement in AJK has decried the Indian minister’s visit as well as Pakistan’s allowing him to attend the summit. "India has let loose a reign of terror in the occupied territory, massacring unarmed civilians with impunity on a daily basis," Syed Salahuddin, head of the Hizb ul Mujahideen group, told Reuters by telephone.

"Pakistan should have suspended if not severed diplomatic ties with India. However, they are rubbing salt in the wounds of the Kashmiris by welcoming the Indian home minister here." The rivalry between India and Pakistan has hampered efforts to transform SAARC into a meaningful platform for integration in South Asia, which accounts for a fifth of the world’s population but less than a tenth of its economic output. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last December made a surprise stopover in Pakistan to meet Sharif, a meeting that was seen as a refreshing gesture, but the thaw was frustrated by a New Year attack on an Indian air base that New Delhi blames on Pakistan and the latest frictions on Kashmir.

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