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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday night dismissed Pakistan's repeated claims that it had stopped support to terrorism as an 'eyewash' and said that the ground situation negated these assertions.
"The neighbouring country had not taken any practical step to match its claims as militant camps were still functioning in Pakistan," Abdullah told a public meeting at Muran in Pulwama district, some 35 km from Srinagar.
He said that Pakistan was trying to impress the United States and the world at large that it had stopped helping terrorists, but the reality was that militant training camps were still being operated from there and ultras pushed into India.
Referring to Monday's killing of five people in Udhampur district, Abdullah said there was no let up in the bloodshed carried out by people from across the border.
"This flies in the face of the neighbouring country that wants to project itself as a frontline nation in the fight against terror," he said.
"Kashmir will never become a part of Pakistan and sooner this reality dawns on them, the better it is," he said.
On Prevention of Terrorism Act, the chief minister said that it would not be used to muzzle anybody's voice, adding the right to expression would not be affected.
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