'Pakistan must be declared as a terrorist state'

Toronto, Jan 1 (PTI) Asking New Delhi to launch
diplomatic offensive on Islamabad for its role in Mumbai
attacks, a prominent Indo-Canadian business leader has said
that Pakistan must be declared a "terrorist state".

India should aggressively pursue anti-terrorism policy
and should put more pressure on Islamabad to end cross border
terrorism besides harbouring and training terrorists, an
Indo-Canadian business leader Hemant Shah said Wednesday. He
is the Chair India of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce.

Welcoming India's new terrorist law that came into force
yesterday, he said that Pakistan was behaving as "terrorist
state" for its support and inaction against terrorist
organisations which were acting like "state within state".

India must also demand global economic sanctions against
Pakistan for posing a serious threat for international peace
and security, Shah said. India should try to avoid war; at the
same it looks like that "nobody is in command in Pakistan to
carry forward peace talks or even diffuse the situation."

"Pakistan has to get a hand and be able to control
organisations that unleash terror, otherwise it should be
declared a terrorist state by the international community,"
he said.

Shah who would be leaving India today to attend the
annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas said that India must launch
diplomatic offensive against Pakistan for its role in Mumbai
attacks and persuade them to declare it as "terrorist state."

Babasaheb Ubale, former commissioner for Canadian Human
Rights Commission, said "Pakistan must be declared as
terrorist state for using State power to promote terrorism."

Both the countries have to address some of the concerns
jointly such as Mumbai massacre and spread of terrorism but it
looks was Pakistan was not serious about India's concerns, he
added. PTI CORR