NEW DELHI: War with Pakistan is “no solution” to the problem of militants using Pakistani soil to launch anti-India attacks, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday after demanding Pakistan hand over 40 people.
“We have given them lists of 40 persons not one, not 20 — lists of 40 persons and we have also pointed out that their denial is not going to resolve the issue,” Mukherjee told Indian parliament on Thursday.
Indian officials had previously demanded that Pakistan hand over 20 suspected militants, some of them linked to last month’s Mumbai attack in which 179 people were killed by gunmen that Indian police say are from Pakistan.
Asked by an angry lawmaker why India was not attacking Pakistan after so much proof of its complicity in fomenting trouble in India, Mukherjee replied: “That is no solution.”
“… if it is not followed to the logical conclusion — complete dismantling of the infrastructure facilities available from that side to facilitate terrorist attack, of banning the organisations — how does that help us?” he said.
India’s minister in charge of security on Thursday also said a major overhaul of the intelligence and policing capabilities was underway, including more spies and police, modern gadgets and the creation of a national investigation agency.
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