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| India-Pakistan |
| Pathankot and power plays |
| 2016-01-12 |
| [DAWN] INDIA has provided Pakistain 'actionable intelligence' regarding the attack on the Pathankot airbase and demands satisfactory follow-up action by Pakistain if the foreign secretary talks are to start in three days' time. Our prime minister has assured the Indian prime minister he will do the necessary. The US is urging India not to postpone dialogue. Reports suggest a number of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... countries consider the intelligence supplied (including mobile phone conversations between the attackers and suspected handlers in Pakistain, a Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... letter, DNA samples of the attackers, their voice record samples, etc) to be credible leads if not conclusive evidence. Pakistain's international legal obligations require it to follow up on these leads to determine whether or not some elements based in Pakistain were involved in the attack. Otherwise, the worst assumptions about Pakistain's international conduct will continue to be made by the international community. A repeat of the Mumbai stand-off would expose Pakistain to ridicule and ignominy. Pakistain could come under immense international pressure, including the threat of sanctions, if it is seen not to be cooperating with India in the hunt for possible suspects. While suggesting Pakistain may need time to conduct its investigations, the US agrees with India that Pakistain must take the leads seriously. Along with India, the US and NATO countries lean to the view that the attack probably was planned and supervised from Pakistain by elements with a history of association with the intelligence establishment, whether with or without its direct or indirect connivance. After the judicial liquidation of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... , Pakistain lost control over crucial aspects of its foreign policy to violent non-state actors backed by the security establishment. The bill for this incredible irresponsibility is still being paid. |
| Posted by:Fred |