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Indian government makes demands on Islamabad
Beijing News.Net
Monday 1st December, 2008
The Indian government has asked Islamabad to take strong action against the group responsible for what it calls the Mumbai outrage.
On Monday, in another sign the relationship between the two countries is hitting a rocky patch, the Indian external affairs ministry summoned Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik in New Delhi and told him that Pakistan's actions must match its pledge not to allow its territory to be used for anti-India terror strikes.
The ministry told the High Commissioner: “The government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this outrage.”
India asked Pakistan to take urgent action on the ground to dismantle terrorist infrastructure on its territory, official sources said.
New Delhi also demanded the extradition of known terror masterminds like underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Maulana Masood Azhar, and LeT chief Hafez Mohammed Sayeed, who are suspected to have a hand in major terror strikes against India, sources added.
Hours after India called in Pakistan's envoy, Islamabad responded in a similar manner with the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad being summoned to be told the Pakistani government denied any link to the Mumbai blasts, although it had not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of non-state actors in the terror strikes.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has demanded evidence linking elements in Pakistan to the Mumbai terror strikes and assured India of strictest action against them.
Investigations by India have yielded more damning evidence of the complicity of Pakistan-based militants in the Mumbai attacks that now threaten to derail the peace process between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
The interrogation of the lone surviving terrorist, who was caught alive during an attack at Chowpatty, has also disclosed that the Mumbai terror plot was hatched in Pakistan.
The arrested militant, Ajmal Qasab, has confessed that he was trained at a camp in Pakistan by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned militant outfit which was created by Pakistan's ISI to foment insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called for a meeting of all political leaders Tuesday to evolve a consensus on Pakistan's policy towards India in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks.
With the India-Pakistan peace process coming under strain, US President George W. Bush has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to travel to India to underline solidarity with India in the fight against terrorism.
At least 20 foreigners, including six Americans and nine Israelis, have been killed in the mayhem in Mumbai unleashed by terrorists.
US President-elect Barack Obama is also closely monitoring the situation in the aftermath of the terror attacks, which are set to affect his plans to end the Taliban-led violence in Afghanistan, as any confrontation between India and Pakistan will lead to a diversion of Pakistani troops from its Afghan border to the India border.
The US needs the crucial assistance of the Pakistan Army to defeat a resurgent Taliban that has found shelter in tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
Rice will be on a day-long visit to India Wednesday.
She has made it clear that she expects Pakistan to cooperate fully with any probe into the Mumbai terror attacks.
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12-02-08, 12:47 AM |
Indian government makes demands on Islamabad
there u go girl..the 'RICE' again?a..aah..what she’s gonna do?she can’t make things right..why? SNAKE BUSH TOLD HER SO..
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morshed
12-02-08, 03:46 AM |
Why india demaded from pkistan? Beacause india is creating violance and terrorism in his own country.Whom created gujrats riot?
Whom created assam riot? Is India a democratic country? How? Is India a Relgious Independent country? how? Why kasmiri mujahid call the terrorist? Because they are fighting their rights.
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waltky
12-02-08, 09:14 AM |
Pretty accurate...
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'Pakistan, an international migraine'
2 Dec 2008, Counting many elements, including terrorism and nuclear weapons, in Pakistan as causes of international worries, a former top US official has described the South Asian country as an “international migraine”.
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"...my own sense is Pakistan has everything that gives you an international migraine. It has nuclear weapons, it has terrorism, extremists, corruption, very poor and it’s in a location that’s really, really important to us. And now with this issue with India. So, I think that the current president and the current secretary of state, who’s on her way to India right now, have a very big job ahead of them," said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “And I also do think that the next president and the secretary of state are going to have to pay a great deal of attention to that combination of issues, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, that all fit together. That’s very important to the United States," she added.
In the wake of current tension between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attacks, Albright said that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was trying very hard to deal with the issue. "...there’s an agreement that the Pakistanis understand what the issue is. I think that if we have clear evidence and intelligence that is one part of this. And that is the Achilles' heel of everything, which is whether you have actual intelligence. "...I think that he is their president and he is working very hard to try to get control over what is a very difficult place," she added. Responding to a query on a remark made by President-elect Barack Obama, at his press conference in Chicago, in the wake of last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai, the ex-official also endorsed the stand of the incoming US president.
“I think that what President-elect Obama said about the fact that every country, under the United Nations, has the right to defend itself that is absolutely true. But it’s also true that they are investigating everything right now and that it is not appropriate for those of us that are not in the government to comment on this," Albright said on CNN’s Situation Room programme. “I think that sovereign nations obviously have a right to protect themselves. Beyond that, I don’t want to comment on the specific situation that has taken place in South Asia right now," Obama had said when asked if India had the same right as he claimed his administration had in going after terror targets inside Pakistan with or without the permission of the government in Islamabad.
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