Kolkata: Warning Pakistan about harbouring terrorism within its borders, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said, "Breeding a snake in your backyard and expecting it to bite only your neighbour is the last thing one should think of."

Banerjee was addressing a Seoul-based thinktank during the South Korea leg of Centre's multi-nation diplomatic outreach.

Banerjee is the member of an all-party delegation led by JD(U) MP Sanjay Jha."Once the snake is unleashed, it will end up biting whoever it can. A snake remains a snake," said Banerjee and went on to add: "Time and again we have been saying this... Pakistan has been harbouring, shielding and sheltering terrorists in their own land.

If you look at the economic trajectory of India and Pakistan, there's hell-and-heaven difference. India has grown by leaps and bounds while Pakistan is struggling with its own crises.

The attack in Pahalgam is a testament to the fact that Pakistan does not want Indian economy to prosper."Banerjee said, "We want to say this with all humility and grace that any support extended to Pakistan is a support to terror organisations.

Anyone endorsing or defending Pakistan's actions is, in essence, backing terrorism," and added, "We need to remember how Pakistan has been harbouring terrorists who masterminded 9/11, 26/11, Uri, Pahalgam... Osama bin Laden was found in Abbottabad." "When India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan, more than a hundred terrorists were killed.

Later, in the pictures on public domain we saw high-ranking Pak military officers attending the funerals of those terrorists," he said. Referring to India's links with South Korea, Banerjee said, "We have a special bond with every Korean. I come from the land of Rabindranath Tagore, and his poem ‘The Lamp of the East' has found a special place in the textbooks of school kids here. We come from a land where we are always taught the importance of peace, harmony, tolerance and humanity. We would be the last one to talk about violence or war. But we have been patiently waiting for them (Pakistan) to bring the perpetrators to book."