Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: November 28, 2001
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=4963
Washington, November 27: Indian
Ambassador to the US, Lalit Mansingh, has said that while Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf are expected
to meet on the sidelines at SAARC next January, a "dialogue" will require
Islamabad to give up cross-border terrorism.
"We have made it clear to Pakistan
that it must make a choice between terrorism and dialogue," said Mansingh,
who was speaking at the School of Advanced International Studies of John
Hopkins University.
"We hope that the right choice will
be made," he added. Pointing out that a person carrying a gun is required
to leave his weapon behind before entering a conference room, Mansingh
said though a part of the international alliance against terrorism in the
aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks, Pakistan remained a sponsor
of terrorism.
"You cannot be fighting terrorism
in the front yard and be a sponsor of terrorism in the backyard," said
Mansingh. "You cannot be a policeman by day and a thief at night."
He said that when US President George
W. Bush in his speech used the words "global terrorism," India sought clarification
and was assured that the reference includes local terrorism also.
