New Delhi, Jan 06: BJP on Tuesday asked the government to spell out its threshold as Pakitan dismissed as "not credible" evidence provided by India to it on the involvement of elements based there in the Mumbai terror attacks.
"Combating terror needs no recipe of words and has to be
fought on the ground. The country would like to know what is
the threshhold for the government and how long would the
country have to wait while Pakistan stands belligerent stating
insufficient evidence," party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy
told reporters here today.
Rudy was reacting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
speech at the meeting of chief ministers on internal security.
"All this while the government is confronting Pakistan
with incriminating dossier, no soon it would appear as if the
UPA government is playing musical chair with them," he said.
The party also criticised the UPA for keeping pending
Presidential assent to GUJCOC, the anti-terror law passed by
Gujarat.
"While the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act stands
amended to incorporate stringent terror provisions, the PM has
yet preferred to keep mum on GUJCOC, which had been denied
Presidential assent on behest of the Union government as too
tough a law," he said.
The saffron party alleged that the Prime Minister has
failed to even remotely acknowledge the presence of
Bangladeshi nationals across the country and the larger issue
of infiltration in particular, he added.
"The reference to non-state actors is a hogwash and now
there is ample evidence that there is only one state actor
which is Pakistan using its official agencies to unleash and
perpetrate terror across the boundary," Rudy said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, January 06, 2009, 00:00