Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
India's Anti-terror squad has arrested three suspects in the Mumbai bombing case. All three are reported to be members of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba
Two of the arrested men hail from Bihar while the third is from Mumbai.
What a surprise...
Meanwhile, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the states to gear up their security machinery to combat Islamic terrorism, saying that responses in the past have been "inadequate".
"We need to gear ourselves to meet these challenges. Business cannot be carried on as usual. We just recognise that past responses are inadequate in dealing with these problems which are of a different intensity, magnitude, scale and scope," he told the Chief Secretaries of the state governments.
The Prime Minister said the recent incidents of terrorism in Mumbai and Kashmir have brought out the extent of penetration of terrorist elements. "We cannot allow them to succeed and get away with their crimes," he said.
"We need to marshall all our resources, utilise all available technology and improve the capabilities of our manpower in meeting these challenges," Singh said.
"You will have to empower your police forces to be able to discharge their functions at a higher level of efficiency," he said.
This new, harder line is undoubtedly a reaction not only to the bombings themselves by widespread dissatisfaction with Singh's overtures towards Pakistan by the opposition.
India has already postponed scheduled peace talks with Pakistan.
i just can't resist throwing this out to nazar.
ReplyDeleteimo, if mushareef(sp) were not in charge in pakistan, we would have already had a nuclear war/exchange in our time.
if mushareef(sp) is unseated/taken-out, the ensuing adminstration will seek to follow mad jad's example/lead in dealing with india.
Hi Louie!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Nazar will have his own answer, but here's my two cents.
Musharraf isn't our friend, but isn't our enemy. Like the vast majority of Muslims, he's watching to see which way the wind blows, and trying to walk the tightrope between the jiahdi elements of his country (a lot of the military, clerics and the ISI)and trying to keep on Bush's good side.
Pakistan would not choose an overt war with India, but would prefer clandestine terrorist actions that can't directly be traced back..which is what they have done so far.
Remember they have STILL not allowed AQ Kahn to be interogate by the US or IAEA.
the balancing act Musharraf is performing i agree with, but back in 2002 when pak/ind got into the exchange of artillery over kashmir, i think they both would have gone nuke. my point is i don't think either pak or ind has a grasp on the "fallout", that is both figuratively and literally, of such an action. i think there would have been too much muslim pressure to go nuke on paks side, without musharraf in place.
ReplyDeleteas for nazar's harvard/yale comment, being from the midwest, i'd like to see some nebraska, oklahoma, texas blood at state. talk about fish out of water, the highest position any would get would maybe be asst. to the asst. night janitor.