Reacting to reports in a section of the Pakistani media, top government sources have ruled out any possibility of direct talks between India’s external intelligence the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.
Sources within RAW, while discounting such possibilities in near future, said the two agencies have not even shared any “actionable intelligence” in the recent past and there was no question of a dialogue between chiefs of the two intelligence agencies.
A section of the Pakistani media for the last few days has been reporting that a US agency had mediated between the ISI and RAW and heads of the two agencies are likely to meet soon.
Top officials in New Delhi security and intelligence agencies while rubbishing such claims said there was nothing to discuss with Pakistan as far as internal security was concerned.
At a time, sources said, when India has concrete information that 42 terrorist camps were still operating in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and as many as 800 terrorists were waiting along the Indo-Pak border to infiltrate into India talks have no meaning.
“Pakistan will always continue to live in the denial mode on the issue of sponsoring terror in India. Even on the global forum on fight against terror Pakistan will be of little help to India. So why should we waste our resources in engaging in a dialogue with them,” a senior intelligence official said.