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India Say Pakistan Supports Terrorism
Friday, September 21, 2001
By Laurinda Keys / Associated Press writer

NEW DELHI, India -- AP
Indian officials say Pakistan -- which has won a measure of gratitude in the United States fo agreeing to join the battle against terrorism -- harbors and supports the very groups Washington has pledged to fight, including the Taliban.

“How can he be concerned about terrorism? He promoted it,” Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said of Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in an interview with the Times of India printed on its front page Friday.

The charge that Pakistan harbors terrorists is one India has been making for years, mostly in the context of bloodshed in Indian-ruled Kashmir, where Muslim militants -- some based in Pakistan -- are fighting Indian troops in an insurgency that human rights activists say has claimed more than 60,000 lives.

President Bush has pledged an exhaustive campaign to wipe out terrorism around the world and punish nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorists, and Indian leaders see a new chance to get help fighting Pakistan-based militants they call terrorists.

But with Mushaffaf pledging Pakistan’s support in what American officials suggest will be an attack on its western neighbor, Afghanistan, Indian officials fear claims of Pakistani support of terrorist activities will go unheeded.

They also fear that Pakistan’s strategic position in any attack on Afghanistan means the United States -- which had been leaning toward India and away from Pakistan as it reassured its alliances following the end of the Gulf War -- will shift again in the other direction.
(More: WashingtonPost.com News Source)

My, they do go on, don’t they? Amazing how blind the world thinks we are. India and Pakistan have been at each other’s throat for years, and now we’re supposed to believe one over the other, because one agrees to support us, and the other does not.

A short piece of history, India:
“That was then -- this is now.”

Pakistan will still be required to surrender its terrorist groups for judgement -- just as India will need to surrender hers.

Oh, wait! India?!

Yeah, that’s right. India.

I don’t think India has much to fear, though, as their terrorists are pretty much like ours, in the “counter” sense (Delta, SEALs, CIA), whereas Pakistan, living on the edge with Afghanistan and Iran, has doubtless had to be more -- creative -- than India.

Oh, the things these people will report to stop the battle “against” terrorism,
Dan (still looking for a news agency that doesn’t mind waving the flag...)