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| Pakistan bid to keep Kashmir out of anti-terror mechanism 'incongruous' | | | New Delhi, March 26
Questioning Pakistan's bid to keep violence in Jammu and Kashmir out of purview of the joint anti-terror mechanism, India has said such a step would be "incongruous" in the fight against the scourge.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee made it clear that the joint initiative was aimed at covering terrorism everywhere and no area can be kept out of its ambit as terrorists do not respect any territorial borders.
"Terrorism is not confined to place A or B," he told PTI in an interview here, underlining that the mechanism was set up with a mandate that the two countries would fight terrorism together wherever it exists.
"Therefore, it will be incongruous to exclude (any) one area...It will not be fighting terrorism because terrorists do not respect any territorial boundary," Mukherjee said.
"To fight against terrorists, you cannot say I will fight it here and not there," he underlined.
When pointed out that Pakistan was trying to draw such a distinction, he said, "they have expressed their views" and added that as the mechanism gathers momentum, all the issues will be sorted out in course of time.
The decision to set up the anti-terror mechanism was taken when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on September 16 last year in Havana on the sidelines of the NAM Summit.
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