India wary of Pakistan’s ‘adventurism’
military adventurism’ continues to keep New Delhi on its
toes, India’s defence ministry has said in its annual report
released on Thursday.
The routine report has acquired importance for its timing just ahead of a proposed meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries in Egypt next week.
Of particular significance is the defence ministry’s blunt claim that Pakistan state organs are involved in aiding and abetting terrorist groups.
President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly said the same thing but in the past tense. Press Trust of India quoted the report as slamming Pakistan for expanding terrorist footprints on Indian soil.
It said India had clear evidence that the Mumbai attack was planned and launched by Pakistan and this had strained the peace process.
‘The terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008 and the clear evidence that the attack was planned and launched by Pakistan have thereafter led to a pause in the (peace) process’ between New Delhi and Islamabad, it said.
The 220-page report said the fact that many of the extremist outfits in Pakistan had known record of terrorist attacks against India amounted to a security challenge with serious implications for the country.
‘The continuing links of these (terrorist) organisations with organs of the Pakistan state adds greater complexities and dangers to the evolving situation confronting us,’ it said.
‘Strengthening of our security apparatus, both internally and on our frontiers is, therefore, a national priority of the highest order. Pakistan’s history of military and quasi-military adventurism underscore the seriousness of the threat we face,’ the defence ministry added.
PTI said the ministry also noted that the year had witnessed a marked rise in terrorist incidents all over Pakistan, including capital Islamabad, apart from the previously affected areas of Fata and NWFP. The defence ministry, according to PTI, said the unimpeded growth of extremist and terrorist organisations in Pakistan was marked by an increase in ceasefire violations, continued infiltration across the LoC in Kashmir, as also major terrorist attacks.
‘All this placed an immense strain on the India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue process,’ it added.
On Afghanistan, the defence ministry said the deteriorating internal security there and the resurgence of Taliban, Al Qaeda and other terror groups since 2006 constituted a threat to stability of the entire South and Central Asian region.
‘The terrorist attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, in which five Embassy personnel and a large number of Afghan nationals were killed, demonstrated that India’s efforts at reconstruction and development were implacably opposed by these groups,’ it said.
Of particular significance is the defence ministry’s blunt claim that Pakistan state organs are involved in aiding and abetting terrorist groups.
President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly said the same thing but in the past tense. Press Trust of India quoted the report as slamming Pakistan for expanding terrorist footprints on Indian soil.
It said India had clear evidence that the Mumbai attack was planned and launched by Pakistan and this had strained the peace process.
‘The terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008 and the clear evidence that the attack was planned and launched by Pakistan have thereafter led to a pause in the (peace) process’ between New Delhi and Islamabad, it said.
The 220-page report said the fact that many of the extremist outfits in Pakistan had known record of terrorist attacks against India amounted to a security challenge with serious implications for the country.
‘The continuing links of these (terrorist) organisations with organs of the Pakistan state adds greater complexities and dangers to the evolving situation confronting us,’ it said.
‘Strengthening of our security apparatus, both internally and on our frontiers is, therefore, a national priority of the highest order. Pakistan’s history of military and quasi-military adventurism underscore the seriousness of the threat we face,’ the defence ministry added.
PTI said the ministry also noted that the year had witnessed a marked rise in terrorist incidents all over Pakistan, including capital Islamabad, apart from the previously affected areas of Fata and NWFP. The defence ministry, according to PTI, said the unimpeded growth of extremist and terrorist organisations in Pakistan was marked by an increase in ceasefire violations, continued infiltration across the LoC in Kashmir, as also major terrorist attacks.
‘All this placed an immense strain on the India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue process,’ it added.
On Afghanistan, the defence ministry said the deteriorating internal security there and the resurgence of Taliban, Al Qaeda and other terror groups since 2006 constituted a threat to stability of the entire South and Central Asian region.
‘The terrorist attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, in which five Embassy personnel and a large number of Afghan nationals were killed, demonstrated that India’s efforts at reconstruction and development were implacably opposed by these groups,’ it said.
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