Paris, May 28 -- Launching a scathing attack on Pakistan for promoting terrorism, former Union Minister of State, External Affairs and member of the all-party delegation to European countries, MJ Akbar said that Pakistan has a "big misconception" that terrorism will succeed in the present time.

MJ Akbar, who is part of the Ravi Shankar Prasad-led all-party delegation to France and other nations, highlighted that for the first time after the Second World War, state-sponsored terrorism started in Pakistan.

He said that Pakistan sent 5000 terrorists to Kashmir on October 22, 1947 and chose the path of terrorism when issues could have been sorted through talks. MJ Akbar also hailed PM Narendra Modi, who believed that the "war" he had begun ...