Pakistan rejects BRICS declaration on terrorist groups

Pakistan on Tuesday rejected a statement by BRICS nations that highlighted terror groups within Pakistan posing regional security concern.

"These organizations, they have some of their remnants in Pakistan, which we're cleaning," Pakistan's Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan told the Geo TV channel, without specifying which groups he was referring to. But Pakistan, we reject this thing categorically, no terrorist organization has any complete safe havens."

The move comes after BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that also called for patrons of the Pakistan-based terrorist groups to be held to account.

On Monday, BRICS countries named for the first time Pakistan-based terror groups like the LeT and the JeM for causing violence in the region.

The 43-page 'Xiamen Declaration' was adopted at the end of the five-nation BRICS plenary that was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Michel Temer of Brazil and Jacob Zuma of South Africa.

The declaration is being hailed as a big diplomatic win for India in its campaign against terrorism emanating from Pakistan.

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