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| US think-tank warns Pakistan against repeating Uri terror type strike | | | Washington has taken a serious note of the terror strike at Uri on the LOC in which 18 Indian soldiers have been martyred and 20 others wounded. Even the US has gone to the extent of condemning the terror strike and has suggested to Pakistan and India to resolve the problem. Describing terrorism as an "existential threat", India has said that "hypocrisy" towards the menace is unacceptable and underlined that terrorism is the "principal cause" of the large-scale refugee movement. "It is important to stress that today the geo-politics of the crisis points and proves that terrorism is the principal cause of refugee movements. Can we ignore this fact, we cannot. We do so at our peril," Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar said in his address to the UN General Assembly's first-ever Summit for Refugees and Migrants here on Monday. Akbar asserted that terrorism is an "existential threat" and "hypocrisy towards this crisis will not do". He underscored that for the millions of people fleeing conflict, war and poverty, terrorism is not characterised as good or bad.
"There is no good terrorism or bad terrorism and if you do not know the answer to this question, all you have to do is ask the refugee if he considers any terrorism to be good or bad," Akbar said. A top American think-tank has said that it is for Pakistan to take steps, including arresting militants and shutting down training camps, to defuse tensions as India weighs options to respond to the Uri terrorist attack that killed 18 soldiers.
The ball is in Pakistan's court to immediately defuse tensions. Only concrete steps, like arresting militant leaders and shutting down training camps, will convince India (and the world) that Islamabad is serious about preventing its territory from being used for terror attacks against its neighbor. The US think-tank has warned that a military response by India could include targeted strikes on terrorist training camps inside Pakistani territory, but such strikes would almost certainly lead to military escalation and potential all-out war.
India would have to weigh the consequences of allowing the region to devolve into India-Pakistani conflict for India's quest to be viewed as a rising and responsible global power," she said.The US had forcefully condemned the attack but should go a step further to defuse tensions by calling on Pakistan to rein in terrorist groups operating freely on its soil."The fact that Pakistan has failed eight years later to prosecute the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks belies its claims of not supporting cross-border terrorism,.Even at this stage extremists like Hafiz Saeed and Jaish-e-Mohammad chief, who are roaming freely in Pakistan for creating one problem or the other when they know that the establishment in Islamabad does not dare to touch them.Once these extremists were tamed by keeping them in prisons the situation in Kashmir and even in Pakistan could improve. Pakistan believes that keeping these extremists free would ensure peace for the Nawaz Sharif Government but in the long process they add to his problems and aches. |
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