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India says Pakistan a terror state
From AFP
24dec01
INDIAN Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani will ask Washington to identify Pakistan as a "terrorist state" during a visit next month to the United States.
"I will obviously communicate our position and the detailed evidence we have. This leaves no doubt that Pakistan is a terrorist state," Advani told the Hindustan Times. (While the world is united against terrorist, the world nor the United States does not wish to fight another nation's private war against another nation! 261201, 10:16)
"I feel that the US has a clear choice and it cannot afford to have double standards. All terrorists are the same." (like Mr Ari Fleischer said, one has to be careful how one defines terrorism).
The "hawkish" home minister, who is number two in India's cabinet, said he had told US Secretary of State Colin Powell that it was difficult for the Indian public to understand how Pakistan is part of the US-led "coalition against terrorism". (Are you just jealous, like a mistress who wants to be the number one mistress to America? Strange indeed is all this thinking)
"There is a terrible dichotomy there," Advani said (well, may be in your mind, but not those who can see the truth (261201)).
India and Pakistan have been conducting a sharp war of words (War of words is better than war of acts) following an attack by a suicide squad on the Indian parliament on December 13, which New Delhi alleges had the backing of Islamabad (evidence please, like Mr Blair said with regard to Iraq, we base our actions on 'evidence').
India on Friday recalled its ambassador to Islamabad and severed rail and bus links with Pakistan, in a move Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf described as a "very arrogant and kneejerk response" (reflex).
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said following a Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting today that Musharraf's comments were "extremely regrettable" and showed he had failed to grasp the "gravity of the situation" (what is gravity but something that pulls you down and imprison you and your mind?).
"I must discount the general's tendency to engage in military malapropism (??). But I cannot help feeling that his reaction to an issue of such importance only shows he is living in an Alice-in-Wonderland world," Singh said (and you are the Queen of Hearts perhaps?).
New Delhi has asked Islamabad to stop the activities and arrest the leaders of the Pakistan-based militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad. Singh said India would give a "final response" to Pakistan after Christmas if it failed to act on the request (terrorists like to make threats and refuse to cooperate, so define terrorism with care will you please).
"A final response to Pakistan will be taken after Christmas when the cabinet committee meets again."
The service chiefs of India's army, navy and airforce also shared their feedback with the CCS on the situation with Pakistan.
India has put its forces on high alert on the Pakistani border but does not expect an outbreak of war, said Defence Minister George Fernandes.
Fernandes said the attack on India's parliament "made it imperative to get the defence forces into a state of very high alert but they have not taken up any battle position".
Fernandes discounted the possibility of war, saying he "would like to remain optimistic till distinctly negative signals come".
"I want to hope that better sense will prevail with Pakistan and the demand that we have made for handing over those who have been behind the terrorist attacks will be acted upon so that the guilty can be punished," he said (Copying the approach of Mr Sharon, non-cooperative, rather just give ultimatums and show who is boss).
Fernandes also reaffirmed that India would not be the first to use nuclear weapons (right, you would not be the last either if you use nuclear weapons, you idiot, may the angels send those nuclear weapons back to you).
"And one would like to believe that every country knows the implications of using such a weapon," he said (please explain the implication, are you threatening the world?).
Tension has been rising between the nuclear-capable countries in recent days.
India said two of its border troops were killed by Pakistani fire across the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in the disputed Kashmir region (Kashmir should be unified and India and Pakistan stay out of the unified Kashmir).
Pakistan in turn said one civilian was killed and 12 injured by Indian shelling across the LoC.
India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since independence from British rule in 1947 (India and Pakistan were once belong together, but was divided with protests from Ghandi. Divided between Hinduism and Islam. It would be good if some of you just realise that we share the same God)
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