News thats really not *news*
Pakistan still training terror outfits: India
“….National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced was terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
He said Pakistan continued to acquire missiles and other weapons and its military strategy remains India-centric.
…The Home Ministry said terror attacks like Samjhauta blast, Mecca Mosque attack, twin explosions in Hyderabad and incidents at the Dargah Sharif in Ajmer, besides the blasts in court premises in Uttar Pradesh ‘have been committed by externally based and sponsored terrorist outfits with some local help’.
A senior MHA official said some recent incidents suggested that outfits like LeT and JeM used territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of men and material. The involvement of HUJAI-Bangladesh has come to notice in some of the recent incidents of terrorist violence, he said.
He said Indian youth were recruited by LeT and HUJAI-BD, which has links with LeT and JeM, for training in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir, and re-launched into India ‘for sabotage and subversive activities’….”
but there may be some hope (or we may be disappointed once again with empty platitudes):
Pakistani PM vows to fight terror
“…Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gillani, has told parliament in Islamabad that his top priority will be the fight against terrorism.”
China the ‘bully’ is threat number one: Fernandes
“…Describing the National Democratic Alliance government’s decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China as an ‘error’, former Defence Minister George Fernandes has said the Communist nation was the ‘potential threat number one’ to India and flayed the United Progressive Alliance dispensation for allowing it to be ‘bullied’.
…”It was not a mistake but an error. It should not have been done,” he said about India’s decision to recognise Tibet as part of China during the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in which he was the Defence Minister.
Fernandes told Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate programme on CNN-IBN that China is ’still the potential threat number one’ and ‘could become an enemy’, as he recalled his statement on similar lines years ago.
…”I have a feeling that what happened in 1962 is still affecting people’s mind and they can’t get out of it,” he said.
Fernandes also took exception at the Chinese government lauding India for its handling of the Tibetan protests in the country.“It is a disgrace that China should say that India has done well,” he said.”
The full interview is here: http://www.ibnlive.com/printpage.php?id=62286§ion_id=3
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