Thursday's terror attack was a plot to blow up Parliament and the entire political leadership of the country, defence minister George Fernandes said on Saturday asserting that New Delhi had enough evidence to link the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba to the strike.

He said that LeT was clearly a Pakistani outfit. “No outfit can take this type of step without support of the people who have brought it up,” the defence minister said to a news channel.

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“Rubbishing Pakistan's allegation that the attack was the handiwork of the indian intelligence agencies,” Fernandes said after this comment, “There is hardly anything left to say about Pakistan's intelligence.”
Asked if in the aftermath of the attack New Delhi proposed to strike terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, the defence minister said that India had earlier taken steps to smash terrorist camps on the border, but now the issue to be taken up was what was the objective of the terrorists who struck at Parliament House.


“Basic question is to see what were they upto. Weren't they upto blowing up parliament and blowing up the entire politcal leadership of the country,” Fernandes said.

Bureau Report