Even as India refuted charges that it is funding Taliban fighters, another senior leader from Pakistan has said there is a ‘feeling’ that New Delhi is supporting terrorists to destabilise the nation.

Rejecting charges by Pakistan that India is funding Taliban, Defence Minister A K Antony called statements by Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik as “absurd and totally baseless” and said Taliban were a threat to world peace. Antony was speaking at the sidelines of a defence function in the Capital.

The statement came even as the chairman of the Pakistan Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Mushahid Hussain, who is on a visit to India, said there was a ‘feeling’ that the Indian establishment was funding Taliban to destabilise Pakistan.

“There is a viewpoint not only in the establishment and the government but also in media circles and among the public that Indian elements in Afghanistan are promoting and supporting terrorism to destabilise our country,” Hussain said.