Pakistan on Friday urged India to "come clean on multiple facets of the Mumbai tragedy" and expose those responsible for acts of "commission and omission" to help uncover full facts and bring the perpetrators to justice.Boy, I am such a dullard! For the life of me, I can't understand why, if Pakistain -- or "
Responding to a statement by Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee at Lok Sabha, the foreign office said Pakistan expects India to come clean on multiple facets of the Mumbai tragedy.
They aleady said that once...
It also demanded India to "expose the names of persons and entities in India who were also responsible for acts of commission and omission in a transparent manner." Pakistan said the reality of Mumbai attacks were increasingly getting mixed with compulsions of domestic politics in India.
Actually they're not. Pak is trying to obfuscate them into some sort of mixture, but it's a success only in the minds of Pak politicians and generals, retired or otherwise.
Mukherjee told Lok sabha, a day after Pakistan's response to the Indian dossier; "Authorities in Pakistan have to choose the kind of relationship that they want with India in future; much depends on actions in the Mumbai case reaching their logical conclusion."
Sounds like they've made their choice, doesn't it?
The spokesman said Pakistan has so far refrained from commenting on Indian internal affairs. "We have acted with a high sense of responsibility and exercised restraint," he added. "Mukherjee's remarks are essentially a rehash of the standard Indian line against Pakistan and in complete variance with the imperatives of a serious approach to uncover the "full facts "relating to Mumbai attacks and bringing the perpetrators to justice," the foreign office statement said.
I think the standard Indian line against Pakistain is that they're all nuts. Events to date seem to bear out that assessment.
The Spokesman said "we have a distinct sense that the reality of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, which were whole-heartedly condemned by the international community and Pakistan, is getting increasingly mixed with compulsions of domestic politics in India."
To the extent that parties within India want something done about the attacks, which were on their sovreign territory. Some parties are more timid than others, and still others are looking toward their own political gain, but nobody's harboring warm fuzzies toward Pakistain except for possibly Dar ul-Uloom Deoband.
Mukherjee told the parliament that India will continue to review the situation, including Pakistan's responses "and will take further steps that we deem necessary to protect our people."
Twist it as you will, that sez they haven't dropped the matter, and they're not going to let Pak drop the matter.
The foreign office spokesman said "the Government of Pakistan expects India to come clean on the multiple facets of the Mumbai tragedy and expose the names of persons and entities in India who were also responsible for acts of commission and omission in a transparent manner."
That's the third time they've repeated that, word for word.
The spokesman said Pakistan has offered India a hand of cooperation. "We do so in the interest of regional peace and security," the statement said.
Then his lips fell off.