New Delhi
27 July 2010
New Delhi has demanded of Pakistan to stop allowing the use of territory under
its control for terrorist activities directed against India and other countries in the region.
The official spokesperson of the external affairs ministry said here in a statement
Tuesday that "sponsorship of terrorism, as an instrument of policy, is wholly
condemnable and must cease forthwith."
The spokesperson was responding to questions following the publication of media
reports about classified information, supposedly from US government sources, put out in
public domain, on support to terrorism by ISI-Pakistan's military intelligence agency.
On Sunday, a website called WikiLeaks had published 91,000-odd US military
documents which revealed how the ISI backed the Taliban and other terrorist outfits in
Afghanistan, and their operations against India.
"The utilisation of territory under Pakistan's control to provide sanctuaries for recruiting
and sustaining terrorist groups, and to direct terrorist activity against neighbours, must
stop if our region is to attain its full potential for peaceful development," the
spokesperson noted.
The WikiLeaks expose of links between Pakistan's official agencies and outfits such as
the Taliban validates India's oft-repeated assertion that the terrorist-establishment
nexus is getting stronger and that the epicentre of terrorism lies in India's
neighbourhood.
The leaked documents confirmed the role of the ISI and the Taliban in organising a car
bomb explosion through a suicide bomber outside the Indian embassy in Kabul on July
7, 2008.
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