Saturday, December 18, 2010

Wikileaks:
Pakistan 'obsessed' by India

Pakistan 's hypnotic obsessed 'by the Indian army and "damn little" done to the suspects behind the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008 to prosecute.

That have anti-American Indian senior diplomats said on Friday shows the website of The Guardian published secret telegrams from Wikileaks .

The memos offer few major revelations about the relations between the rival nuclear powers, but deliberately undiplomatic language that is used in private conversations will be a colorful perspective to India's frustration with Pakistan .

Earlier this year, the Indian Foreign Minister Nirupama Rao against U.S. Senator John Kerry that peace talks, since the attacks in 2008 are still no progress so long as Islamabad will find not undertake to dismantle the terrorist network in Pakistan.

The United States have urged both countries have repeatedly urged the ties between them. There is Washington itself also benefits, because in that case Pakistan troops near the border with India may remove them to bet against insurgents in the border area with Afghanistan .

Pakistani official praised Indian response on Mumbai attacks: WikiLeaks

A Pakistan High Commission official praised India for acting “responsibly and maturely” following the Mumbai terror attacks which killed 166 people, according to US official cables released by WikiLeaks.

The official, whose name was deleted in the confidential cable, made the comments when contrasting New Delhi’s reaction to the Mumbai attacks to its response after the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul in July 2008.

The cable, dated December 1, 2008 and signed by then US envoy David C. Mulford, spoke of strong demands in the Indian media for retaliatory action against terror camps in Pakistan after Mumbai.
It quoted the Pakistani official as saying the Indian government’s reaction to the embassy bombing was “impulsive and politically motivated” when it swiftly blamed Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence.

More than 40 people, including India’s military attaché and a diplomat, were killed in the July 2008 attack on the embassy in Kabul, while 166 people died in the Mumbai attacks by gunmen in November 2008.

According to the Pakistan officer, the negative effects of the Mumbai attacks on ties between the two countries would “fizzle out over the next few months”, the cable said.
The concluding comment on the Mumbai attacks by the US Embassy was: “No Military Confrontation Anticipated”.

India is still pressing Pakistan to bring to justice the alleged masterminds of the attacks in which 10 gunmen attacked a host of targets including luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and the train station.

Nine of the gunmen were killed and the sole survivor, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was condemned to death by a Mumbai court in May. He is challenging the sentence.

Seven suspects in Pakistan including the alleged mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Zarar Shah have been put on trial in the country, but none has yet been convicted.

India using terror as ‘propaganda tool’, says Pakistan

Pakistan on Saturday accused India of using terrorism as a “propaganda tool” against it, and said tensions between the two countries would continue till just solutions are found to long-standing disputes like the "core issue” of Kashmir.

“I must with regret say that India is using terrorism as a propaganda tool against Pakistan and there is a long history to this. This is a strategic plank they have used against Pakistan,” Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said.

The two countries have long-standing issues, including core issue of Kashmir, and “tensions will continue in some form or the other till there is a just solution” to these problems, Mr. Bashir said in an interview to Aaj News channel.

Mr. Bashir made the remarks while responding to questions on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s silence on the Mumbai terror attacks during his recent visit to India and Pakistan’s expectations about the role that China could play in easing tensions with India.

Pakistan had condemned the Mumbai incident and “cooperated totally” with India in the probe into the terrorist assault, he said.

“There is no need to make this issue a propaganda tool. If Indian media is raising this, the Indian leadership should make the people aware of the reality,” he said.

“Terrorism is not a localised disease, it is a big global issue. There is no other example around the world of a country prosecuting the anti-terror campaign as effectively as Pakistan,” Mr. Bashir added.

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