Expressing outrage at the vicious and cowardly terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, community leaders here urged government to take strong action to eliminate terrorism and terrorists from the country as also their bases and training camps wherever they might be.
In a strongly worded resolution adopted at a hurriedly convened meeting on Sunday, they warned the Bush administration that victory in its war against terrorism would be incomplete unless the scourge is wiped out from Kashmir and elsewhere in the world.
A five-member committee was formed to work out details as to how NRIs could help in India's fight against terrorism. It would take up several suggestions made at the meeting to make law makers as also individual American aware of the facts, especially that India has been victim of and fighting terrorism single-handedly for more than two decades.
During the debate that preceded the adoption of the resolution, many community leaders spoke emotionally condemning the terrorists acts, some thought the Indian government needs to be more proactive in dealing with Islamabad and still others expressed the view that india should take initiative, like Israel, in attacking and destroying terrorists bases in Pakistan and the part of Kashmir occupied by it.

Bureau Report