16/07/2010
New Delhi: The official machinery finally kicked into action here on Friday over the controversial remark of Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi when he equated rabble-rouser and mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai attack Hafiz Saeed to India’s Home Secretary G K Pillai.
On the issue of "hate speeches" by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Qureshi said both sides needed to refrain from negative speeches. But in the same breath, he said "on the eve of this dialogue, tell me to what extent" did the Indian Home Secretary's remarks help -- a reference to G K Pillai's remarks at the Idea Exchange programme of The Indian Express this week, in which he blamed the ISI for "controlling and coordinating" the 26/11 terror attacks "from the beginning till the end".
In a way, he equated Saeed's recent anti-India speech in Lahore wherein he called for waging a war against India to the remarks of Pillai.
And then he said his Indian counterpart S M Krishna agreed on this. Qureshi and Krishna were addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Thursday night after talks between the two nations.
Surprisingly, Krishna did not rebut Qureshi's remarks on Pillai.
The BJP on Friday fumed at Krishna's silence and regretted that the Home Secretary was not "defended" when he was "openly castigated" by Qureshi.
The Congress on its part described as ridiculous any attempt by Pakistan to equate Pillai's remarks with Jamaat-ud-Dawah(JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed's anti-India hate speeches.
"The Foreign Minister of Pakistan chose to attack India's Home Secretary. I regret he was not defended there by India's Foreign Minister," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said, a day after Qureshi's unexpected attack on Pillai at a joint news conference with Krishna after their talks in Islamabad.
Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said, "The Home Secretary was simply making a statement of fact about what India's stand has been, It is only India's stand. I don't think there is any basis for comparison of statements by Hafiz Saeed or Salahuddin with the Home Secretary. That would be ridiculous."
Singhvi also noted that Krishna has not confirmed Qureshi's remarks that both the ministers were of the opinion that Pillai's comments on ISI's role in 26/11 were "uncalled" for.
Prasad while offering his preliminary comments on the outcome of the Indo-Pak talks said Qureshi was making an issue out of Pillai's statement which was nothing but a statement of LeT operative and Pakistani-American David Headley about the role of ISI in Mumbai attack. Headley has confessed to his involvement in 26/11 and is currently in FBI custody in Chicago in the US.
"They have no reply or content but they are comparing it (Pillai's remarks) with Hafiz Saeed without taking any action," Prasad said.
Qureshi's criticism was noteworthy as it was in response to a question on the anti-Indian rhetoric of Saeed and he cited Pillai's comments as a counter. Krishna's silence when Pillai was attacked by the Pakistani minister has raised eyebrows.
Pillai had early this week blamed Pakistan's powerful Inter Services Intelligence(ISI) agency for "controlling and coordinating" the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 "from the beginning to the end".
Source: India Syndicate and IANS
K.Venugopal
#1
Friday, 16 July 2010 14:33:03
India is wasting its time talking to Pakistan. We should break off diplomatic relations with Pakistan and be prepared to attack terrorist camps within Pakistan. By engaging us in talks they are only diverting our attention from their nefarious designs on our nation through terrorism. We should not be lulled into complacency in the name of giving diplomacy a chance. They are only taking us for a ride.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4159467&page=0
New Delhi: The official machinery finally kicked into action here on Friday over the controversial remark of Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi when he equated rabble-rouser and mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai attack Hafiz Saeed to India’s Home Secretary G K Pillai.
On the issue of "hate speeches" by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Qureshi said both sides needed to refrain from negative speeches. But in the same breath, he said "on the eve of this dialogue, tell me to what extent" did the Indian Home Secretary's remarks help -- a reference to G K Pillai's remarks at the Idea Exchange programme of The Indian Express this week, in which he blamed the ISI for "controlling and coordinating" the 26/11 terror attacks "from the beginning till the end".
In a way, he equated Saeed's recent anti-India speech in Lahore wherein he called for waging a war against India to the remarks of Pillai.
And then he said his Indian counterpart S M Krishna agreed on this. Qureshi and Krishna were addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Thursday night after talks between the two nations.
Surprisingly, Krishna did not rebut Qureshi's remarks on Pillai.
The BJP on Friday fumed at Krishna's silence and regretted that the Home Secretary was not "defended" when he was "openly castigated" by Qureshi.
The Congress on its part described as ridiculous any attempt by Pakistan to equate Pillai's remarks with Jamaat-ud-Dawah(JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed's anti-India hate speeches.
"The Foreign Minister of Pakistan chose to attack India's Home Secretary. I regret he was not defended there by India's Foreign Minister," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said, a day after Qureshi's unexpected attack on Pillai at a joint news conference with Krishna after their talks in Islamabad.
Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said, "The Home Secretary was simply making a statement of fact about what India's stand has been, It is only India's stand. I don't think there is any basis for comparison of statements by Hafiz Saeed or Salahuddin with the Home Secretary. That would be ridiculous."
Singhvi also noted that Krishna has not confirmed Qureshi's remarks that both the ministers were of the opinion that Pillai's comments on ISI's role in 26/11 were "uncalled" for.
Prasad while offering his preliminary comments on the outcome of the Indo-Pak talks said Qureshi was making an issue out of Pillai's statement which was nothing but a statement of LeT operative and Pakistani-American David Headley about the role of ISI in Mumbai attack. Headley has confessed to his involvement in 26/11 and is currently in FBI custody in Chicago in the US.
"They have no reply or content but they are comparing it (Pillai's remarks) with Hafiz Saeed without taking any action," Prasad said.
Qureshi's criticism was noteworthy as it was in response to a question on the anti-Indian rhetoric of Saeed and he cited Pillai's comments as a counter. Krishna's silence when Pillai was attacked by the Pakistani minister has raised eyebrows.
Pillai had early this week blamed Pakistan's powerful Inter Services Intelligence(ISI) agency for "controlling and coordinating" the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 "from the beginning to the end".
Source: India Syndicate and IANS
K.Venugopal
#1
Friday, 16 July 2010 14:33:03
India is wasting its time talking to Pakistan. We should break off diplomatic relations with Pakistan and be prepared to attack terrorist camps within Pakistan. By engaging us in talks they are only diverting our attention from their nefarious designs on our nation through terrorism. We should not be lulled into complacency in the name of giving diplomacy a chance. They are only taking us for a ride.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4159467&page=0
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