There will be no exchange with Pakistan except if it halts from terrorist activities against India, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced Wednesday, in a rebuff to Pakistan daily after Islamabad said it would welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the SAARC summit. She likewise said the Kartarpur corridor initiative was not linked to the dialogue procedure with Pakistan.

"Unless and until Pakistan stops terrorist activities in India there will be no dialogue and we will not participate in SAARC," Swaraj told a press conference here.

Swaraj's announcement came hours before Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was to establish the framework stone for the much-anticipated hall connecting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur - the last resting spot of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev - to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Gurdaspur district.

India has been requesting a corridor, which will encourage visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, for a long time and she said she was happy that Pakistan had out of the blue reacted emphatically. 

She said. "In any case, that does not bilateral talks will start only on this,"gathering fear and talks can't go into a single unit 

Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Mohammad Faisal had said on Tuesday that head administrator Modi will be welcome to that nation for the SAARC summit. 

Sushma Swaraj, who is campaigning here in front of the Telangana elections on December 7, stated, "The moment Pakistan stops terrorist exercises in India, exchange can begin however the discourse isn't associated with just the Kartarpur passageway."

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