Bharat Rakshak

Hand over Kasab to Pakistan: Islamabad to Delhi

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/war-with-pakistan-not-a-solution-pranab/425180/

War with Pakistan not a solution: Pranab

New Delhi: Government on Wednesday projected Islamabad's acknowledgment of its soil being used in the Mumbai Terror strikes as a major triumph and spoke of the futility of a war with Pakistan saying it would not solve the problem of terrorism.{ Guess we are done here. Time to restart and get back to "business as usual"}

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was replying to the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address during which he sought to suggest that the Government has achieved much in the backdrop of the ‘failure’ of the BJP-led NDA regime after the Parliament attack.

"We did not mobilise a single soldier, we did not press the panic button, we did not lay mines on the border, but we said we expected Pakistan to fulfill its commitment," Mukherjee said in Lok Sabha.

His reference was apparently to the troop mobilization and military exercises as part of the 'Operation Parakram' during the NDA rule after the 2001 attack on Parliament.

"We were advised why can't we retaliate like some other countries are doing. Why don't you attack Pakistan," he said, asserting that the government believed that war with Pakistan would not solve the problem of terrorism.

"Diplomacy has paid. It has not failed. We said that the non-state actors (terrorists) were not coming from the heaven and they (Pakistan) have admitted (it)," he said.{clap, clap}

The motion was approved by the House after rejecting the Opposition amendments.

Admins please lock this thread. People are going to get banned unnecessarily if they respond to such statements from our GOI.

Updated at: 2130 PST, Wednesday, February 18, 2009

LAHORE: Interior Advisor Rehman Malik Wednesday said Maulana Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim are not in Pakistan and that no request has been received from India for their arrest. Aren't these two statements exclusive?

He said this while talking to media after the meeting of the Federal Cabinet in Lahore.

In his interview with the BBC, Mr Chidambaram said the main terrorist threat to India came from abroad, but admitted that there were many cells of Islamic militants operating in the country.
Most of them were funded, trained and supported from abroad, in particular from Pakistan, he said.
Mr Chidambaram became home affairs minister in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
He said he had set himself two tasks before the general election, due before May.
He said he wanted to make sure India was better prepared to deal with a terrorist attack and to respond to any future attack swiftly, decisively and in a deterrent manner.
Mr Chidambaram said there was an overall plan to challenge the very idea of India as an open secular and plural society.
"I can't connect all the dots, but it's quite clear that there is a plan to destabilise the country," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7898549.stm

Time for some self back patting. After all, we have punished Pak so much that they will never think of attacking India again!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7898549.stm

he can connect the dots, but feels squeamish in admitting to it publically. There were news reports a few days ago on who exactly was planning to destabilize India.

Must have missed it. Who exactly was it that they alluded to?

The plotters behind the Mumbai attack, which left more than 170 people dead, had placed India's financial capital on a list of 320 worldwide locations as potential targets for commando-style terror strikes, the Guardian has learned.

It suggests that Lashkar-e-Taiba, the outlawed terror group that planned much of the attack from Pakistan, had ambitions well beyond causing mayhem in India.

Western intelligence agencies have accessed the computer and email account of Lashkar's communications chief, Zarar Shah, and found a list of possible targets, only 20 of which were in India.
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The US has been trying behind the scenes to co-ordinate intelligence exchanges between the two nuclear-armed rivals. The CIA has worked hard to be seen to help New Delhi – including by recovering phone numbers deleted by the terrorists on their satellite phones.
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There has been some speculation that raids in Spain which netted 12 men – an Indian and 11 Pakistanis – were a result of the investigations into Lashkar's role in the Mumbai attacks.

2. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low-Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities. This obscure job is as much a mouthful as it is critical. As the Pentagon’s principal outpost for irregular warfare, the directorate formerly known by the awkward acronym SO/LIC (it’s now “SO/LIC & IC” on the Pentagon org-chart) has emerged as a hotbed of unconventional thinking — much as the Office of Net Assessment was for a previous generation of tech-crazy defense wonks.

Earlier this year, one of its recent acting chiefs, Joseph Collins, published a scathing study of the Iraq war, calling it a “major debacle.” Collins was at SO/LIC & IC for the invasion, making him a rare veteran of the Rumsfeld Pentagon to publicly describe the war so harshly.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the new generation of theorist-practitioners who specialize in counterinsurgency have gravitated to the office. Prominent counterinsurgents like Janine Davidson and Celeste Ward recently worked there, and the idea for an interagency network of irregular-warfare specialists grew out of their efforts. At a recent counterinsurgency conference, attendees from across the military services wanted to know whether a high-profile counterinsurgent like retired Army officer John Nagl would become its new assistant secretary or deputy assistant secretary in charge, auguring another advance by the counterinsurgents along the corridors of power.

If, as expected, scholars from the Center for a New American Security think tank make their way into Obama’s Pentagon, SO/LIC & IC would be their natural home.

The Govt OF TSP, its TSP Army, Taliban, Alqaeda and ISI are all one and the same.
Applying Principle of uncertinity
If you look for Taliban you lose othe identities
If you look for ISI you lose other identities
If you look for Alqaeda you lose Taliban and other identities
etc etc

as N guru ages ago put it

"destroy TSP give peace a chance" there is no via media....

The Govt OF TSP, its TSP Army, Taliban, Alqaeda and ISI are all one and the same.

Turd in Nariman house negotiating with a Israeli diplomat based in the US via a (Indian??) translator.

Its like they took the gloves off.

Should the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008 be replicated in America, the resulting loss of confidence in public security may be severe enough to affect consumer behavior. Although George W. Bush has been panned for asking Americans to spend after 9-11, it is a reality that the ability of the United States to come out of its current difficulties will hinge on the American consumer acting both free and brave, something possible only in a secure environment. Success against terror will need an understanding of the evolving chemistries in South Asia, especially that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India