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To: kumar who wrote (14259)	12/20/2001 11:33:27 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Kumar, Sometime we have to talk about Hindu fundamentalism. In the meantime, there's this. Talk about twisting the tiger's tail whilst you're standing arse deep in poisonous snakes, alligators and scorpions: dawn.com Pakistan's war fears imaginary, says India By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Using a common idiom to dismiss Pakistan's fears of a war with India as farfetched and even imaginary, New Delhi stood its ground on Thursday nevertheless against any further talks with Islamabad if no meaningful action was shaping against terrorist groups it says are operating from across the border. A foreign ministry spokesperson also ruled out entertaining specific and unambiguous requests from Washington and of course Islamabad too that New Delhi share with Pakistan details of the terrorist attack on the British-built Parliament House last week so that both countries could join hands in fighting the scourge of fanatical terror that remains a threat to both. Not only that, Spokesperson Nirupama Rao effectively put paid to even a chance dialogue between Indian and Pakistani leaders when they attend next month's regional summit in Kathmandu, even if they are in the same room, at the same table as they would most probably be. The prime minister greatly looked forward to being in Kathmandu, Rao said. Asked if the casual dialogue with President Pervez Musharraf that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had spoken of was still on, she said: "The question of talking to Pakistan given Pakistan's attitude and its unresponsiveness for the need to take necessary action against terrorists from its soil against India, really does not arise." She said Vajpayee's offer of a casual tryst with Gen Musharraf was now an old story given the new complexities that have been introduced. Asked why India was not pulling out of the January summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation if relations with a major member were so bad that they would not even hold a brief meeting, Rao said the agenda in Kathmandu would be a strictly Saarc-related one. Rao said New Delhi had been briefing a few select embassies, including the French, British, German and of course the United States, about Pakistan's hand in the Dec 13 attack on Indian parliament. Pakistan seemed to be tilting at windmills, Rao remarked when asked to respond to Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar who said earlier on Thursday that the military build-up along the India-Pakistan was becoming dangerous. She said Pakistan should look at the reality of the situation. Pakistan had to take meaningful action on the demands contained in our demarche of Dec 14, Rao said, referring to the protest handed to High Commissioner Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, in which Pakistan was asked to freeze the accounts of and arrest leaders of Lashkar and Jaish... "It is Pakistan that is the epicentre of terrorism in our region and it is for Pakistan to take action against terrorist groups responsible for the attack on our democracy," she said. The United States has asked India to furnish evidence of the involvement of the Lashkar-i-Taiba and Jaish-i-Mohammed in the Parliament House attack. "India has to provide evidence to us or to others to establish the case. It would provide a better basis for going after the terrorists, and provide an even better basis for the government of Pakistan. Their involvement in the attack needed to be investigated," Star New channel quoted US State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher as saying. "The evidence that we have gathered clearly implicates the Lashkar-i-Taiba and Jaish-i-Mohammed. This evidence is being shared with our friends and that includes the United States. Pakistan however would not be taken into confidence," she said. TROOP MOVEMENT: Meanwhile Indian media reports said Vajpayee was under tremendous pressure domestically to act against Pakistan following last week's terrorist attachment and the government was weighing its diplomatic and military options. Despite appeals from military experts not to cross into Pakistan Delhi is clearly in a belligerent mood, The Hindustan Times said. Indian troops are moving towards the winding border with Pakistan, not just in Jammu and Kashmir but all across the entire western frontier. Officially it is being said the Indian decision is in response to Pakistani troop movements. Truckloads of soldiers were seen leaving New Delhi's military cantonment all through Tuesday to the Pakistan border, joining troops that have already reached there or are moving out of barracks elsewhere in the country, the newspaper said. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his family, it is learnt, have cancelled a planned Christmas vacation in Goa, it said.