NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will decide if Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will attend a Saarc ministerial meeting in Islamabad this month, reports said on Tuesday, and India`s defence minister may have signalled the mood by describing Pakistan as a verItable `hell` to go to.

The finance ministers of member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation are to meet on Aug 25 and 26 in Pakistan, which, according to reports, said in a recent statement that it would play `a good host`.

`That assurance was made days after Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh spent a tense 24 hours in Islamabad,` the NDTV said. Indian reports say Mr Singh was snubbed by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and during the visit, Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif publicly spoke of `the freedom movement` in Kashmir in remarks New Delhi believes were designed to provoke India.

On Monday, Mr Modi`s Independence Day speech delivered an aggressive change of tone in his policy on Pakistan, the NDTV said.

Hostility across the border ratcheted up after the July 8 killing by India`s security forces of Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani who was eulogised by Pakistan and Mr Sharif as a martyr.

His death has plunged the Kashmir Valley into its worst unrest in over six years, while India has accused Pakistan of instigating the violence.

Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar added a new invective by describing Pakistan as `hell`, reports said.

`Our soldiers sent back five terrorists yesterday.

Going to Pakistan is same as going to hell,` the minister was quoted as saying.