Wednesday, July 8, 2009


On Board PM's Special Aircraft, July 07: India will convey in no uncertain terms to Pakistan that it has to take demonstrable action to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt next week.

While New Delhi
recognises that Islamabad has its own problems on the terror front it cannot accept these as an excuse for inaction against terrorism directed against India, according to sources in the delegation accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the G-8 summit in L 'Aquila in Italy.
The meeting between the two prime ministers slated for July 16 on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Summit(NAM)in Sharm-el-Sheikh will be preceded by a meeting between their Foreign Secretaries Shivshankar Menon and Salman Bashir on July 14.

The Singh-Gilani meeting will be a follow-up to the discussions he had with President Asif Ali Zardari in Yekaterinberg in Russia last month when he delivered a stern message to Zardari in the full glare of media that his mandate was to tell Pakistan that it has to take action against terrorism emanating from its soil against India.
The sources said Pakistan has told India that they have five people in their custody who were the masterminds of the Mumbai attacks and they have declared 22 people as proclaimed offenders they were looking for.

At their meetings in Egypt, the two Foreign Secretaries will review matters relating to what action Pakistan has taken on its assurances to India that it will contain terrorism against India and to dismantle the terror infrastructure on its soil.

"They will tell us what they have done and we will tell them what we expect from them," the sources said.

India is actually not interested in the judicial process in Pakistan because it doubts whether it is capable of delivering justice.
About PM's virtual snub to Zardari in Russia and his cancellation of the trip to Egypt, the sources said India has no say in who the leaders are in Pakistan and cannot decide who it will talk to there.

India has also never said it will not talk to Pakistan at all, the sources said, adding the only issue is that the process of resumption of the Composite Dialogue with that country is not possible right now.

The sources pointed out that it has been one year since the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul and there has been no action by Pakistan against those responsible for it.
They wondered why there is no demonstrable action against those elements working against India.
The sources said Manmohan Singh told Zardari that Pakistan has taken some action against Taliban but when it comes to India there is no demonstrable evidence of action.

The sources said Jamat Ud Dawa (JuD), which is said to have been banned after the Mumbai attacks, is always there existing in some form or other.

New Delhi has also come to understand that Islamabad is doing some spoofing by which they use decoy phones on the borders to draw red herrings to mislead India.
The sources said India was not looking for any breakthrough in talks with Pakistan because dealing with terror is not a one-off incident that you can switch off or switch on at will.
On increased US assistance to Pakistan, officials feel there was no problem as long as it is meant for betterment of its economy and people but when equipments are given to Pakistan which is not absolutely not necessary it causes concern in India.

Source: http://www.zeenews.com/

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