This refers to the editorial, “The heart of terrorism” (December 6). It is heartening that the Heart of Asia (HoA) summit has been taking rapid strides ever since it was conceptualised, by shaping into a robust opinion-moulding, inter-governmental body. The latest summit in Amritsar was significant in the wake of a surge in global terror and augmented hostilities between two estranged neighbours — India and Pakistan. It is appropriate, therefore, that the HoA conference adopted a strong anti-terror resolution.
Pakistan's proclivity for sheltering terror, and its loathness to control terror emanating from its soil, was condemned by Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ghani mocked Islamabad's propensity to provide financial assistance to Kabul on the one hand, and infuse terror on the other. This must have ruffled a few feathers in Islamabad's higher echelons. Modi too aptly observed that terror had no adjective — good or bad. After Saarc, Pakistan's isolation now looks almost complete.