Asking Islamabad [ Images ] to stop supporting and sponsoring terrorism before the world begins to treat it as a pariah, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani [ Images ] on Saturday said a new chapter in Indo-Pak relations could open if Islamabad hands over 20 terrorists wanted by India [ Images ].

He said the terrorist attacks like that on the residence of Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed [ Images ] in Srinagar [ Images ] on Friday would not affect the government's resolve to achieve victory over terrorism.

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"A new chapter can be opened in Indo-Pak relations if Islamabad hands over Dawood Ibrahim [ Images ] and other 19 terrorists
whose list was given to Pakistan last year," Advani said while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of Antar-Rashtriya Sahyog Parishad in New Delhi [ Images ].

Pointing out that the US government has declared underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as a 'global terrorist,' he said the external affairs ministry has again asked Pakistan to comply with India's demand of handing over the 20 terrorists.

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"Pakistan should think. It should either shun the path [of sponsoring terrorism]...or else the way the world is reacting, it
would be treated as a pariah," he said, adding "some countries are saying it, some others are not saying so yet."