US ignored India's woes: PM

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Publication: The Economic Times
Date: September 29, 2001

Prime Minster A B Vajpayee on Friday made a veiled criticism of US for not raising its voice against terrorism when India was its victim. "If those who are raising their voice against terrorism today had spoken against the menace when India had become its victim, the picture would have been different," he said in an apparent reference to the US while addressing a gathering of Muslims from the Capital.

The PM told the US Congress last year he had warned Washington that terrorism operated in a different way and "didn't recognise any boundary or religion that does not value human life." At that time, the US gave only "sympathy and nothing else" to India. "Probably they thought India and Jammu and Kashmir were far away, across the seven seas and they (US) will be safe as no one will target them. But terrorism does not recognise distance and you saw what happened on September 11."
 

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