Clean up the terrorist training camps: Senator Lieberman

Washington, Jan 9 (PTI) In an unequivocal strong message
to Islamabad, an influential US lawmaker has asked Pakistan to
"clean up" the terrorist training camps and bring to justice
the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack.

This is the minimum he would expect from Islamabad in the
aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Senator Joseph I
Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs told reporters.

"They (Pakistani authorities)know where they (terrorists)
are. We know, where they are. Sometimes, it is... people come
in the camps... these are not military bases. They are quite
temporary and can move out quickly. But we have to keep them
on the run. And some of them are more than temporary," Senator
Lieberman, who held a hearing on Mumbai terrorist attacks
earlier in the day, said.

In this case, the minimum the Pakistani Government can
possibly do bring anyone associated with the Mumbai terrorists
attack to justice. "They should be prosecuted in the court of
law," the Senator asserted.

Lieberman was in India and Pakistan soon after the Mumbai
terror attacks and met leaders of both the countries including
the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.

"It is very important that the Pakistani Government take
actions so that no one can ever have any basis for charging or
concluding that anyone in the Pakistan intelligence service
has had contacts with terrorists," he said, adding "this is
just unacceptable."

"There is still reason to believe, that President Zardari
and Prime Minister Gilani have taken against terrorism,
because it threatens most immediately the people of Pakistan,"
he said, adding: "unfortunately there appears to be some
continuing contacts." PTI