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| US, Pakistan adopting double standards | | EDITORIAL | |
In a befitting response to Pak pretensions of its keenness to continue
the peace process with India and asking India that the serial blasts
of Mumbai on July 11 should not derail the negotiations going on
between the two countries, India has called a spade a spade by asking
Pakistan to give positive proof of its commitment to demolish the
terrorist infrastructure in their country. In the first direct contact
between the officials of the two countries at Dhaka, for preparation
of SAARAC summit meet, Indian Secretary for external affairs, Shayam
Saran has told his Pakistani counterpart that before the peace process
and any official level meeting between the representatives of the two
countries is resumed, it is imperative that Pakistan fulfills its
commitment given to India that it will not allow its territory to be
used for exporting terrorism to India. India has already told Pakistan
and even USA that they have the positive proof of Pak involvement in
the terrorist strikes in our country. The interrogations of various
captured terrorists has revealed the continuous existence of terrorist
training camps and launching pads in the territory under the control
of Pakistan, where ISI has been providing the terrorist outfits all
the assistance, supplying them arms and providing logistic support.
India has earlier told USA also that it has more positive and better
proof of the Mumbai blasts having Pakistani links than the US had
proof of the involvement of Al Qaida in the 9/11 attacks on the twin
towers in New York and Pantagon in Washington. If USA could exercise
the option of demolishing Al Qaida infrastructure by waging an open
war on Al Qaida and Taliban in Afghanistan, why India can't exercise
this option for its own safeguard against the onslaughts on it by the
armed terrorists from Pakistan. Both Pakistan and USA are adopting
double standards, in their so called war on international terrorism.
While Pakistan has been fully cooperating with USA in taking
pre-emptive and punitive actions against the suspected Al Qaida and
Taliban jehadis camping within Pak territory on its borders with
Afghanistan, it has been serving warning on India against taking such
a step to demolish the terrorist training camps and launching pads in
Pak territory. The USA on the other hand which itself exercises the
hard option of air dropping its forces several thousands of miles away
in Afghanistan as a retaliatory action against Al Qaida jehadis and in
a bid to capture the Al Qaida supreme Osama Bin Laden, while it has
been advising restrain in India in its reaction to the repeated
terrorist strikes in the country, with Pakistani links. The US on its
part even exercises the option to destroy the alleged existence of
weapons of mass destruction with Sadham Hussain's government in Iraq,
by openly waging a war on that country and affecting change of regime
in that country, although no such weapons of mass destruction are
ultimately found to be in the possession of the forces under Sadham
Hussain. But when there is even any hint of India thinking to take any
pre-emptive action against the terrorists bleeding our country, while
operating from Pak territory, USA not only advices us to desist from
such a course but gives ample hint of it providing all the assistance
and help to Pakistan against any such action by India. It is thus
clear that both USA and Pakistan who claim to be allies in the war on
terrorism, are adopting double standards.
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