The US ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, said on Wednesday that Washington and New Delhi were on the brink of a major relationship, and pledged the war against terrorism would not be ended until "terrorism" had ended against both countries.
"A terrorist is a terrorist. They are not freedom fighters. No country will be permitted to provide sanctuaries to terrorists," Blackwill said in reply to a question about Pakistan`s support for militants in Jammu and Kashmir. "The fight against terrorism will not end until terrorism against the United States as well as India has ended," he told a news conference for foreign journalists. Blackwill said the United States and India were on the cusp of a "major relationship" after US President George W Bush met Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on November 9 in what he called the most substantive summit between the two countries in the past 50 years. Bureau Report