Home Minister L K Advani on Friday night said that the decision to recall India's envoy from Pakistan and snap bus and rail links with that country was indicative of the gravity New Delhi attached to December 13 terrorist attack on Parliament. Advani regretted that the Musharraf regime had failed to proceed against Pakistan-based terrorist outfits Jaish-e-Mohammad and Laskhkar-e-Taiba even after India had made a formal demand in the wake last week's terror strike.
“If (Indo-Pak) relations are not normal, the principal reason was our neighbour's resort to strategy of proxy war of which terrorism ingredient,” the Home Minister told reporters.
“The government is monitoring the situation as it develops and I think other countries who have been involved in the global fight against terrorism, also may be exerting to see Pakistan realises the gravity of what has happened,” Advani said while replying to questions on the decision taken at this morning's meeting of cabinet committee on security chaired by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Home Minsiter said, “The December 13 incident was an assault on India's democracy and the values we hold dear. It was not just one more terrorist incident.”
He recalled Vajpayee's speeches in Parliament that government would consider the issue in all its aspects and that the response would be commensurate with the challenge. Bureau Report