India has hit out at Pakistan for pursuing terrorism as an instrument of state policy, saying such a strategy is flawed and self-defeating. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is likely to meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu on the margins of a SAARC Committee meeting, said, Some countries presume that they can pursue terrorism as an instrument of state policy without risks to themselves or to their standing in the international community. She said, this is a flawed and self-defeating presumption asthe war on terrorism cannot be selective. Mrs. Rao said, New Delhi always maintained that a stable and prosperous Pakistan is in India’s interest. She added that Pakistan must turn away from using terror-induced coercion as an instrument of policy against India. Mrs. Rao, who was delivering a speech at a seminar on Asian Security Challenges in the capital asserted that the epicenter of global terrorism is located in India's neighborhood. Apart from asking Pakistan to fulfill its commitment of not allowing its territory to be used against anti-India acts during the meeting, Mrs. Rao is also expected to raise India's demand for expeditious punishment for all those responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks. Noting that the horrendous attacks on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and the Mumbai attacks two years ago demonstrated the barbaric forms that terrorism can take, Mrs. Raosaid there are terror groups, some that even enjoy thepatronage of elements of state structures, that target Indiafrom across our borders. She said, there is increasing evidence that Al-Qaeda, the LeT and the Taliban are conducting coordinated and in fact operationally fused terror attacks.