Ahead of the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday that talks with Pakistan can start the moment Islamabad

stops terror activities in India. There will be no dialogue with Pakistan unless it desists from terrorist activities against India, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj declared on

Wednesday, in a rebuff to Pakistan a day after Islamabad said it would invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the SAARC summit. "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. Her remarks come as Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday lays the

Swaraj, who thanked her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi for the invite and said she was unable to travel to Kartarpur Sahib due to prior commitments. However, Union ministers

Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri are representing India at the event. The Kartarpur Corridor, which will facilitate the visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Darbar

Sahib in Kartarpur, is expected to be completed within six months. Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan is located across the river Ravi, about four kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine. It

was established by the Sikh Guru in 1522. The first Gurdwara, Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, was built here, where Guru Nanak Dev is said to have died. Last week, Pakistan and India announced

that they would develop the corridor on their respective side of the border to help Indian pilgrims visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur. Prime Minister Modi had likened the decision by

the two countries to the fall of the Berlin Wall, indicating that the project may ease simmering tension between the two countries. _(WITH AGENCY INPUTS)_