Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad has hard evidence of India's interference in the tribal areas and Balochistan.

"Pakistan is collecting concrete evidence against the Indian intervention in the Pakistani tribal areas and Balochistan," Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad on Sunday.

The Pakistani foreign minister said that it will be impossible to establish peace in the country until India revises its hostile policy toward Pakistan.

"Unless (India) dispenses with its visceral animosity towards Pakistan, attaining viable peace and security in South Asia will be even more elusive."

Senior military and civilian officials in Islamabad have repeatedly accused India of supporting militants in the northwest and southwest of the country.

The Pakistani army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas, recently said a huge quantity of Indian arms used by the militants had been confiscated in South Waziristan.

Pro-Taliban militants based in South Waziristan are believed to be behind several attacks on major Pakistani cities since 2007.

Pakistan's tribal districts along the Afghan border have been plagued by militancy since the US-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan in 2001.

In the southwestern province of Balochistan, rebels rose up against Pakistan's central government in 2004. They are demanding autonomy and a greater share of the profits from the region's natural resources.

New Delhi has always rejected Pakistan's claims that it is interfering in the country's internal affairs and has repeatedly accused Islamabad of supporting separatists in the Indian-administered Kashmir.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they attained independence from Britain in 1947.

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