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| Musharraf hedging in talks with India: US think tank | | |
Washington, Oct 27 Noting that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is clearly "hedging" in talks with India by allowing Kashmiri militant groups to continue to operate, a leading US think tank has asked Washington to send a consistent message to Islamabad to deny safe haven to terrorists.
The Heritage Foundation has said Washington should privately acknowlege the links between the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Pakistan groups that target India and ask Islamabad to deny a safe haven to militants regardless of whether they attack coalition forces in Afghanistan or innocent civilians in India or elsewhere.
Observing that US expectations are that Islamabad develop an equally uncompromising policy toward all three groups, it said "This means that Pakistan must shut down training facilities associated with international terrorist incidents, including institutions run by the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Muridke and the Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur.
"Washington should emphasize the dangers of Islamabad's maintaining a permissive attitude toward groups that commit terrorism and remind Pakistani officials that U.S. laws require sanctions against states that support terror groups," Lisa Curtis of the Foundation said in the paper.
The paper said the U.S. Should not try to involve itself directly in resolving the Indo-Pak dispute, but should continue to talk about the issue separately with both sides and inject ideas into their dialogue process.
"President Musharraf is clearly hedging in talks with India by allowing Kashmiri militant groups to continue to operate. The U.S. Needs to convince Musharraf to instead put his faith in the Indo-Pak dialogue," it said. |
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