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Valley violence not terrorism: Pak



Islamabad:The Indo-Pak Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism is just a few days old, but the fault lines in it are already beginning to show.

India maintains that all terrorist acts on Indian soil fall within the ambit of the panel

"We will raise whatever is of concern to us. Pakistan will raise whatever is of concern to them," Indian Foreign Secretary, Shiv Shanker Menon, had stated before the talks began.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is not too keen on bringing terrorist acts in Kashmir within the mechanism's ambit and in an interview, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri had clearly hinted at this.

"This is an India, Pakistan mechanism," Kasuri said.

Kasuri was drawing attention to Kashmir's disputed status and by default to Pakistan's calculated ambiguity on the subject.

But Kasuri was more forthright on another controversial issue. He admits the panel will cover past incidents of terror.

By clearly hinting that Pakistan would not help India investigate acts of terror carried out by outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, Kasuri may just have proven critics of the Joint Anti-Terror mechanism right - critics who had said that Pakistan only talks of combating terrorism but isn't willing to act on those words.




























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