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| India: US,UK should push Pakistan to close terror camps |
| 2010-03-25 |
| India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram says Pakistan's "friends" like the U.S. and the U.K. should put "pressure" on it to shut down terrorist camps operating on its eastern borders. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Close the camps. No one's ever thought of that ... In an interview to BBC, he regretted that the civilian government in Pakistan did not rein in its intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and saw no difference between the Pakistan-based Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Al-Qaida. Chidambaram, on an official visit the U.K., said things would have been better "if there is a truly civilian government" in Pakistan which could rein in the ISI, as also direct the army and the ISI to dismantle their respective terror infrastructures. "The camps must be closed. Training must end", he asserted. Has he seen any movement in that direction in Pakistan? His reply: "Nothing so far". Chidambaram also said that there was no confusion over the issue of Indian investigators getting direct access to Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley alias, Dawood Gilani. "No, I don't think so," he replied when asked about the claim of U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer that "no decision on direct access for India to David Headley has been made." "...If you reflect more carefully that sentence (of Roemer) no way (it) contradicts what the U.S. Attorney General (Eric Holder) had told me," Chidambaram said, adding New Delhi was going ahead in the matter, and not really taking cognizance of the U.S. ambassador's remarks. Earlier Wednesday, Home Secretary G K Pilla said that India was not taking cognizance of Roemer's remarks and would be sending its investigators to the U.S. at the earliest to interrogate Dawood Gilani, supposed CIA-agent-turned-Lashker- operative. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 When we pull out of Afghan the West Must fully support the Indians as we have nothing in common with Pakistan a country built on hate! India/West should kick their butt including their Islamist gangs! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2010-03-25 13:46 |