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Pak not acting against 26/11 attackers : Chidambaram
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Sept 11 (PTI) Voicing India's disappointment
over Pakistan not prosecuting perpetrators of the Mumbai
attacks, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram Friday made it
known to to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it expects
tangible action on the terror issue.
Wrapping up his four-day visit, Chidambaram who met
Clinton and other top officials, said he had told them about
Hafeez Sayeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and mastermind
of the 26/11 attacks, roaming free despite evidence provided
by India which has handed over six dossiers.
"I think, the US understands the difference between
the way India's approach to post 26-11 situation and the way
Pakistan approached post-26/11 situation. It is enough to draw
attention to the difference and leave it there," he said when
asked if the US is exerting enough pressure on Pakistan to
take action against terrorists targeting India from its soil.
The Home Minister said he had not asked specifically to
"push for this and to push for that" during his interaction
with the Indian media here to a question if he had sought
US assistance to ensure that Pakistan takes action against
perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
"I did brief them on the State of the trial of Ajmal
Kasab (the lone surviving Mumbai attack terrorist) in India
and I also did mention about no progress in Pakistan in
respect of the five or six people they have arrested. And
Hafeez Sayeed (LeT founder) remains a free man. I think that
is enough. They know to draw the lessons from that statement,"
he said.
Responding to a question, Chidambaram said the next
level of Indo-US relationship does not mean "leaning on"
Pakistan. "Next level means many things. The next level means
working together on security related matters."
During his parleys, the minister also stated that
the security threats emanating from Pakistan soil have not
diminished. He also stated that there has been an increase in
infiltration from the Pakistan side.
"We make estimates based upon human intelligence and
technical intelligence. The numbers are now ruiing at about 50
to 60 a month. And the number of people we apprehend is also
very high. So, our assessment is that the level of
infiltration has increased since the month of May, 2009", he
said.
The Obama Administration has come out in support of
India's stand on pre-conditions for talks with Pakistan.
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central
Asia Robert Blake said the progress made by Pakistan in
bringing the perpetrators of 26/11 to justice and stopping
cross border infiltration would lay the basis of resumption of
talks between the two south Asian neighbours.
"The progress is needed first to bring the Mumbai
suspects, who are already in custody to trial, to prosecute
them and also to stop cross border infiltration so that there
is not another attack such as what happened in Mumbai," he
said.
Chidambaram said that he has not submitted any dossier
on Mumbai terrorist attacks to the US authorities during his
trip to Washington this time.
"Even when we planned this trip in January, there was
no plan to handover the dossier. The dossier has already been
shared with many countries including the US," he said.
Countries whose citizens or nationals have been killed
in the Mumbai terrorist attack have been shared with the
dossier.
"I think there was a bit of a misrepresentation by a
section of the media that I was handing over a dossier.
Dossier has already been shared. Even now there was no dossier
to hand over. Even the sixth dossier has been shared with 16
countries including the US," he said.
He described as "very fruitful" his intensive
interaction with the top US officials.
"We had very fruitful discussions. I am very pleased
with the level of interest shown by the officials and leaders
of the US Administration as well as the very positive attitude
they take to the security issues that confront India," he
said.
"The response has been quite positive and I hope we can
take this forward in the days and months ahead," he said.
Besides Clinton, Chidambaram met National Security
Advisor James Jones, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and US Attorney General
Eric H Holder Jr Early.
He also met several key US lawmakers in charge of
security and intelligence matters in the Congress. PTI LKJ
ANU
Washington, Sept 11 (PTI) Voicing India's disappointment
over Pakistan not prosecuting perpetrators of the Mumbai
attacks, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram Friday made it
known to to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it expects
tangible action on the terror issue.
Wrapping up his four-day visit, Chidambaram who met
Clinton and other top officials, said he had told them about
Hafeez Sayeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and mastermind
of the 26/11 attacks, roaming free despite evidence provided
by India which has handed over six dossiers.
"I think, the US understands the difference between
the way India's approach to post 26-11 situation and the way
Pakistan approached post-26/11 situation. It is enough to draw
attention to the difference and leave it there," he said when
asked if the US is exerting enough pressure on Pakistan to
take action against terrorists targeting India from its soil.
The Home Minister said he had not asked specifically to
"push for this and to push for that" during his interaction
with the Indian media here to a question if he had sought
US assistance to ensure that Pakistan takes action against
perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
"I did brief them on the State of the trial of Ajmal
Kasab (the lone surviving Mumbai attack terrorist) in India
and I also did mention about no progress in Pakistan in
respect of the five or six people they have arrested. And
Hafeez Sayeed (LeT founder) remains a free man. I think that
is enough. They know to draw the lessons from that statement,"
he said.
Responding to a question, Chidambaram said the next
level of Indo-US relationship does not mean "leaning on"
Pakistan. "Next level means many things. The next level means
working together on security related matters."
During his parleys, the minister also stated that
the security threats emanating from Pakistan soil have not
diminished. He also stated that there has been an increase in
infiltration from the Pakistan side.
"We make estimates based upon human intelligence and
technical intelligence. The numbers are now ruiing at about 50
to 60 a month. And the number of people we apprehend is also
very high. So, our assessment is that the level of
infiltration has increased since the month of May, 2009", he
said.
The Obama Administration has come out in support of
India's stand on pre-conditions for talks with Pakistan.
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central
Asia Robert Blake said the progress made by Pakistan in
bringing the perpetrators of 26/11 to justice and stopping
cross border infiltration would lay the basis of resumption of
talks between the two south Asian neighbours.
"The progress is needed first to bring the Mumbai
suspects, who are already in custody to trial, to prosecute
them and also to stop cross border infiltration so that there
is not another attack such as what happened in Mumbai," he
said.
Chidambaram said that he has not submitted any dossier
on Mumbai terrorist attacks to the US authorities during his
trip to Washington this time.
"Even when we planned this trip in January, there was
no plan to handover the dossier. The dossier has already been
shared with many countries including the US," he said.
Countries whose citizens or nationals have been killed
in the Mumbai terrorist attack have been shared with the
dossier.
"I think there was a bit of a misrepresentation by a
section of the media that I was handing over a dossier.
Dossier has already been shared. Even now there was no dossier
to hand over. Even the sixth dossier has been shared with 16
countries including the US," he said.
He described as "very fruitful" his intensive
interaction with the top US officials.
"We had very fruitful discussions. I am very pleased
with the level of interest shown by the officials and leaders
of the US Administration as well as the very positive attitude
they take to the security issues that confront India," he
said.
"The response has been quite positive and I hope we can
take this forward in the days and months ahead," he said.
Besides Clinton, Chidambaram met National Security
Advisor James Jones, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and US Attorney General
Eric H Holder Jr Early.
He also met several key US lawmakers in charge of
security and intelligence matters in the Congress. PTI LKJ
ANU
