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| Pakistan 'lacks will' to tackle terrorism: India |
| 2009-03-07 |
| The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan shows the Pakistan government lacks the will or is incapable of tackling terrorism, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday. He said India had warned that the world would not remain immune to "the flames ignited" in Pakistan unless the international community ensured Islamabad dismantled the terror infrastructure on an urgent basis. Mukherjee said in his keynote address on the first day of the India Today Conclave 2009 in New Delhi that developments in Pakistan were the "most disturbing for every right thinking person in the world" and "without doubt, for us Indians". He said the nations "that have used terror as an instrument of state policy" should be left with no choice but to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorism and "actively cooperate" with the international community to eliminate terrorism. "This threat needs the efforts of the international community at large to ensure that it is eliminated on an urgent basis," he said. The world is "slowly but surely" moving in the direction of "reaching the threshold of zero tolerance on terrorism", he said. He said the US government's stimulus package discouraging American firms from hiring foreign workers is not in keeping with the spirit of global cooperation. "It runs counter to current efforts to stem the sharp decline in the economic growth worldwide," Mukherjee said. |
| Posted by:Fred |