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The PM’s unusually strong remarks invited a sharp reaction from Pakistan, which said the statement would “not only ratchet up tensions but also occlude facts and destroy all prospects of serious and objective investigations into the Mumbai attacks”.
Pakistan also rejected the material handed over to it by New Delhi on Monday in support of its claims that the terrorists in Mumbai had come and were handled from Pakistan. Islamabad said the material did not comprise “credible evidence”.
Singh made repeated references to Pakistan in his inauguration speech at the Chief Ministers’ conference, and dismissed the Pakistani line that ‘non-state actors’ might have been responsible.
“The terrorist attack in Mumbai in November last year was clearly carried out by a Pakistan-based outfit, the Lashkar-e-Toiba,” the PM said. “On the basis of the investigations carried out, including (those by) the agencies of some foreign countries whose nationals were killed in the attack, there is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan.”
Home Minister P Chidambaram had made a similar statement over the weekend, saying an operation like the one in Mumbai could not have been carried out without the complicity of “state actors or state-assisted actors”.
The PM went on to describe Pakistan’s government as “fragile” and “irresponsible”, and accused it of creating “war hysteria”.
“Our problems are compounded by the fact that we have a highly unpredictable and uncertain security environment in our immediate neighbourhood. The governments in some of our neighbouring countries are very fragile in nature. The more fragile a government, the more it tends to act in an irresponsible fashion. Pakistan’s responses to our various demarches on terrorist attacks is an obvious example,” he said.
Then, distinguishing between Pakistan-backed terror and other internal security threats to India such as left-wing extremism and insurgency in the North-east, the PM said, “Terrorism, on the other hand, is largely sponsored from outside our country, mainly Pakistan, which has utilized terrorism as an instrument of state policy”.
In response, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry warned that India’s approach was “fraught with grave risks” and would “further vitiate the situation in South Asia”. The statement repeated Pakistan’s well-known line: “Pakistan has suffered more terror attacks than India. But we have not lost our equanimity”.
It stressed that Pakistan was not a state sponsor of terrorism, and advised India “to demonstrate restraint and responsibility”.
“Vilifying Pakistan or for that matter any of its state institutions is unwarranted and unacceptable. This is a sure way to close avenues of cooperation in combating this menace,” the statement said.
Singh, however, went on to make another reference to cross-border terrorism in the evening, though this time he did not name Pakistan.
“On our part, we will spare no effort to deal with terrorist and insurgent groups operating from neighbouring countries. We are determined to put an end to terrorism sponsored from across the border with all the means at our command,” he said in his concluding speech at the Chief Ministers’ conference. He urged Chief Ministers to make every effort to ensure zero-tolerance towards terrorism.
Pakistan also said that the evidence handed over by India in support of claims that Pakistani elements were involved in the attacks were “not credible”. Appearing before the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan’s Parliament, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir reportedly said, “The details provided by India are mere information and cannot be treated as evidence or help in the investigations. We need concrete evidence of the involvement of Pakistanis without which we cannot move ahead in our investigations.”
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Namaskar Mr. Prime minister.Bus karo please. Hum bahuth sunaa. We Indians are sick and tired of this kind of commentry from you, Mr. Anotny and Mr. Chidanbaram, since last one month.
Just a simple question to you sir. Is this one Jehadi terrorism or Political terrorism.I am sure none of you or the liberal media will nevrrt use Jihadi anywhere.
Dear P.M., this may be news to you; but everybody in this world, except perhaps the Indian secularists know this very well. The question is, what you are going to do about this? Why don't you act instead of begging the USA and other countries to solve our problem? They will only try to dissuade you because they need Pakistan. Accept that India is alone in this fight against terrorism on our soil and we have to fight it ourselves.
Instead of aggravating other countries India should act diplomatically and try to solve the gruesome crime. Innocent lives were lost lets not forget that. No matter what politicians say those who passed will never breathe again.
It is not surprise that Terrorist State of Pakistan behves such way. Majority of people of such quota and behaves that way. Just like one find in Indian thinking even after death of Mahatma Gandhi, they proud in taking kicks! We believe that kicking is violence, taking kick is non violent and one should be proud of it, HIJDO KI FAUJ!
You cannot expect help from Pakistan, as they have miserably lost three wars, Kashmir and Bangladesh. Their army, public and Government wants to hurt Indians, and they take mental satsfaction when they hurt India including in cricket or hockey fields. Our politicians provide this entertainment to Pakis free of cost by talking flip flop while Paki politicians are talking tough, this is the immense pleasure Pakis are getting now. Is the war solution? No, we have to cut iron by iron, our army should form terrorist cells that attacks Pakis from all sides and we keep on saying the role of non-state actors . I am sure when they see the same weapon they will understand and will wind down. The first step towards this is to release my dearest modern patroits Lt. Col. Shrikant Purhit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Dayanand Pandey. Finance these guys (the best way to use tax payers money) to open tbranches in border towns and train the anti islamists to suck the blood of fanatic islamist Pakis
1. complete the trial for Qasab and hang him to death. otherwise there will be another 'Kandahar episode' and he will be out free.2. destroy all the hideouts in Kashmir and tighten border security. 3. put international community pressure on Pakistan to hand over the criminals.4. no non-sense in name of religion allowed in country. apply same laws for everyone. make india a truely secular country.
India should stop humiliating itself by requesting Pakistan to respond to terror attacks. Don't we learn from the history taught by Pakistan? Let’s see what we could do. I understand that protecting the border is not easy. Pakistan India border itself is around 3,323 (no one knows the real length) lets say we have check point for every 200 Meters / Point of sight with 2 armed commandos then we need 99690 soldiers (three 8 hour shift). Of course these soldiers cannot stop an army by they can at least raise a flag when they spot a threat and request more troops or backup. If India can make military service mandatory for students /youth of India then we can easily cover 24 hours a day not only India Pak border but also other dangerous areas like Bangladesh and china. India also makes them involved in protecting the country.India also need to setup bigger better safer bases for every 50 KM so that they can backup when service required. We could do it the old school way.Some one should say
Dear fellow Indians.Be realistic now and stop emotional statements here.The only real victory we can mention against Pakistan was 1971 war.This was due to certain facts we must never ignore while we become insane due to anger against Pakistan.Bangladesh was surrounded by Indian territory from three sides.A big advantage to our Army.Second,Bangladeshi army was already fighting with Pakistani Army making it much weaker before Indian invasion started.Third,many Bengali people in Pakistani army were working as spy for Indian army.Fourth,Pakistan,s main land was around 2000 km away from Bangladesh as compared to India.Fifth, Pakistan was not nuclear state at that time.Sixth,there was no democracy in Pakistan at that time.so people were not behind Pakistan army.Seventh,China was not as stronger as now.Eighth,we can not compare Pakistan with Palestine.Ninth,attacking Pakistan is not a surety that there will be no terrorists activities in India.Rather,a greater risk of escalation of these .
YES MR. Sharma YES. It is better to die while standing than live by crawling on the kneels. People like you mr. sharma made the situation like what is now. You have to options (1) Face terrorists attack like in Mumbay and mind you next time they will not hesistate to use chemical weapons.(2) Face the war.Also, Mr. Sharma, just update your knowledge about India and its Armed forces. Good luck....
India has no clue what it will do if Pakistan denies the “evidence” India give, if USA and so-called “international community” fail to pursue Pakistan to covertly support Islamic terrorism against India. How can India expect US to do what US has failed to do to protect its own interest (to prevent majority elements in Pak politics, Pak army and ISI to fight the so-called enemy during day and sleep with the same guys during night) in Afghanistan! USA is busy mediating India and Pak to de-escalate tension mainly to get its own work done in Afghan front. India must have the capability and courage to accept its own responsibility and solve its own problem. Past experiences tell us that India is neither capable nor willing to accept its own responsibility to protect its dignity, sovereignty and security of common citizens.
Now what Pakistan needs is a hard punishment from India. Let you liars pakistani rulers be prepared.
Indian leaders such asssholes. They are asking crooks to punish themselves
The answer is not to attack Pakistand but bleed them with a thousand cuts like they are trying with us. If they can spend 100 crore for acts against us we should spend at least 10 times as mush we can afford to do thus they can't
This is not Paki's fault. They are following their religion, this is what they learn from these madarsas. Surprisingly, they dont have a single sensible person who can talk reality except Mr. Nawaz Sharif. India's enemy is not Paki commen man but the terrorists, their supporters i.e. Pak Govt. ISI and terrorist training camps oprators. India must give a call to Indians to come back to their country if some are visiting their relatives in Pak, and use the language which they used in 1971. This is the only language they can understand.
I only want now the indian war machine jagnaurt to be started, an then let we all see.....how many min.s can pakistan withstand the all ..mighty INDIAN WAR MACHINE. Only the main fear is not the nukes, but our politicians?.....i think they are more worried of our army than pakistanis??......Hope they just now give army to go to borders an replace simple B.S.F ....And let the pakistani watch , what is called indian army. I only laugh on pakistanis, when they see B.S .F on our borders and say indian have put army on borders..............Arey pakistaniyo... army to abhi dekhi hi nahi hai tum logo nay.........Now is the times, let these pakis see the real indian army...Inshah allah .............we all gona have cup of tea in islamabad....And Mr. Zardari serving us that....Ameen
pakistan feels the strength in China and we should look at China with same lense as Pakistan.
when a hijada is our pm, they will say like this. our army should take over the nation
Let us not beg them to take action, let us stop all the relationship with them. Let economic blockade , people to people contact stop, let us stop all the train and buses to pakistan, Even if Allaha comes and tells pakistani , they will not accept the fact .Let us bleed pakistan econonically. We are not going to loose anything by stopping all the relationship with pakistan. Jai hind
It is a pity that our leaders and officials are not able to pin the errant nation down diplomatically or otherwise. They are unable to take firm steps to contain the terror internally also. God save the country.
This is high time to stop all kind of ties with Pakistan. War may not be the right thing. But, having a permanent concrete wall on the Pakistan Border is the least we can do. Why is the train still crossing border? Why are the Kashmiri Seperatists still at large? It is high time to tighten up the inside security and get rid of all inside enemies. Close down all windows towards Pakistan. Please understand that no country is going to come forward to help us out of the situation. Why should one do that? Are we fighting for Israelis in Palestine? Are we fighting for Palestine against Israel? Are we a strong ally of US? We, India, have the history of never taking a stand on any international issue since its birth. If we never made any enemy, please note that we never made any friend as well.
very good You pointed out our basic mistake, we never stood behind anyone in any issue.
There is going to be no change in Pakistan attitude or action towards India. It will lament the creation of Bangladesh. Pakistan will always harbour hate against India. Please our beloved leaders wake up and give Pakistan the answer that is appropiate. Once and for all. The time for action is now.
The time has come for joint punitive action by the China, France, UK, US, Russian Federation
I am not naive enough to believe this collective punitive action is going to be a reality. Of all the countries 'China'? It is China which gave all military strength including nuclear weapons to Pakis. It is China which dragged its feet in UN security council's decision on LeT. It is China which wants Pakistan to be an irritant to India for a long time to come. I am not living in a fantasy world to believe that China will want Pakis to control the terrorists against India.
I am not naive enough to believe this collective punitive action is going to be a reality. Of all the countries 'China'? It is China which gave all military strength including nuclear weapons to Pakis. It is China which dragged its feet in UN security council's decision on LeT. It is China which wants Pakistan to be an irritant to India for a long time to come. I am not living in a fantasy world to believe that China will want Pakis to control the terrorists against India.
Pakistan is not going to cooperate with Mumbai Terror Attack,even if more ceridiable informations is provided to them.India should act now on the terrrorist training camps in Pakistan with its Air Force Capabilities.
When you see israellis talking on TV by god you get a feeling that the tough guys are talking and they mean business. When we see our politicians perform Alas I always fall of the chair laughing . Now that pak has rejected our evidence when do we go snivelling to uncle sam. Sir please restrain pakis, China please restrain pakis, saudi arabia please restrain pakis and so on and on. If the govt can protect its citizens then why are they still hanging on to power. Why dont they quit.
When will India realise that Pak doesnt simply understand civilised language. Their aims and aspirations are entirely different and they always beleive in might is right. So can we talk to them in the language israel uses. The muslim world may hate israel but by god they respect the jewish state.