Friday, February 6, 2009

india AskUN to exert more pressure on Pakistan about 26/11


In yet another strong message to Pakistan over its continued reluctance to act on the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday urged the UN to exert more pressure on Islamabad.
The minister, who discussed the Mumbai terror attacks with the visiting UN Secretary General Ban-ki-Moon in New Delhi said, “Pakistan must ensure that it fulfils its commitment to end terrorism emanating from its soil.”

Pranab also sought the urgent intervention of the United Nations and the international community to pressurise Islamabad, which has been in the denial mode ever since it was proved that Pakistan based terrorists were responsible for the Mumbai carnage.

“I requested the UN Secretary General to look into all aspects and ensure that Pakistan fulfils all its promises to stem in terrorism,” Pranab said while talking to reporters.

The strong statement from the Foreign Minister comes a day after Home Minister P Chidambaram cleared the air on Pakistan’s response to the dossier that India provided it.

Chidambaram confirmed that India had not got any response from Pakistan over Mumbai attacks probe.

The clarification from the Home Minister came in the wake of divergent views held by Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on Pakistan’s response.

"There is no confusion. Both External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and I have said that we have not received any response to the dossier given to Pakistan as yet," Union Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters.

Also, for the first time, country’s Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon came out in the open and maintained that ghastly terror attacks Mumbai were the handiwork of Pakistan’s notorious spy agency, the ISI.

Menon stated that the investigations conducted so far have proved that the attacks were planned and launched from Pakistan.

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