INDIA TELLS PAKISTAN TO CRACK DOWN ON MILITANTS
Somini Sengupta, Robert F. Worth and Mark McDonald
International Herald Tribune, December 11, 2008
Calling Pakistan the epicenter of terror attacks against India, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee called on the government in Islamabad Thursday to do more than detain leaders of extremist groups even as he hinted that India does not "intend to be provoked" into a military conflict.
Mukherjee, speaking to Parliament in its first session since the three-day siege of Mumbai last month, reiterated India's demand for about 40 fugitives and suspected terror suspects whom it says are taking shelter in Pakistan. His comments seemed designed to avoid directly criticizing the president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, with whose democratically elected government he said he had "no quarrel."
At the same time, he pressed the Zardari administration to close down the "infrastructure" that enables terror strikes against India.
Shortly after the Mumbai attacks, Zardari had described the terror suspects as "nonstate actors" over whom the Pakistani government had no control. On Thursday, that statement met with a stinging retort from Mukherjee.
"Are they nonstate actors coming from heaven, or they are coming from a different planet?" Mukherjee asked. "Nonstate actors are operating from a particular country. What we are most respectfully submitting, suggesting to the government of Pakistan: 'Please act. Mere expression of intention is not adequate."
Somini Sengupta, Robert F. Worth and Mark McDonald
International Herald Tribune, December 11, 2008
Calling Pakistan the epicenter of terror attacks against India, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee called on the government in Islamabad Thursday to do more than detain leaders of extremist groups even as he hinted that India does not "intend to be provoked" into a military conflict.
Mukherjee, speaking to Parliament in its first session since the three-day siege of Mumbai last month, reiterated India's demand for about 40 fugitives and suspected terror suspects whom it says are taking shelter in Pakistan. His comments seemed designed to avoid directly criticizing the president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, with whose democratically elected government he said he had "no quarrel."
At the same time, he pressed the Zardari administration to close down the "infrastructure" that enables terror strikes against India.
Shortly after the Mumbai attacks, Zardari had described the terror suspects as "nonstate actors" over whom the Pakistani government had no control. On Thursday, that statement met with a stinging retort from Mukherjee.
"Are they nonstate actors coming from heaven, or they are coming from a different planet?" Mukherjee asked. "Nonstate actors are operating from a particular country. What we are most respectfully submitting, suggesting to the government of Pakistan: 'Please act. Mere expression of intention is not adequate."
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