Centre shouldn't have talks with Pak: Rajnath

RAIPUR: The Centre should not have any peace talk with Pakistan as long as Islamabad continues to sponsor terrorism in India, BJP chief Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.

"India should tell Pakistan that as long as cross-border terrorism is not stopped, there will be no talks," Singh told reporters at the BJP headquarters here.

Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency should be put on the international watch list for its activities, he said adding that Nepal's Maoists, India's Naxalites and other terrorist
groups have links with the agency.

Singh also called for an official probe into the spy ring detected at the National Security Council Secretariat. "There should be a commission of inquiry or a joint  parliamentary committee to probe that as in the Navy war room case, the CBI was not allowed to function independently," he claimed.

To a query on BJP leader Jaswant Singh's book "A Call To Honour", he said, "People should read the book as the media has misquoted many of its portions."

Criticising the Central government, he said, "The Manmohan Singh government has lost control over adminisration because of which there is a high rise in prices among other things."

Singh spoke to reporters before participating in a rally to protest the increase in prices of essential commodities.