New Delhi: Lambasting Human Rights (HR) organisations who advocate the rights of terrorists, Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami on February 10 demanded "singling out and ostracisation" of countries exporting terrorism, like Pakistan, from international fora including SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation).

"Human Rights groups of different shades and opinion describe action against terrorists as state terrorism. Those who butcher innocent men, women and children and snatch their basic right to life do not deserve any mercy or sympathy of such groups to plead their case. It is most unfortunate on their part to do so," Swami said.

He was addressing a session on 'State and Non-State Actors in Terrorism' at the ongoing International Youth Conference on Terrorism organised by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in New Delhi.

Blaming the US and the rest of the world for not acting decisively following terrorist strikes in the past including the blowing up of US marines and the blasts at US missions in Africa, he said, "we will not be able to face this menace squarely unless we do it collectively and without discrimination".

In an apparent reference to Pakistan, he said countries engaged in exporting terrorism and using terrorism as an instrument of state policy "have to be ostracised, isolated and banished from all international fora including SAARC. Otherwise global peace will remain in danger."

He also called upon developed countries to provide the less developed countries with the necessary wherewithal to combat unemployment, poverty and hunger, which contribute to the growth of terrorism.

PTI