New Delhi has demanded of Pakistan to stop allowing the use of territory under its control for terrorist activities directed against India and other countries in the region. The official spokesperson of the external affairs ministry said here in a statement Tuesday that “sponsorship of terrorism, as an instrument of policy, is wholly condemnable and must cease forthwith.”
The spokesperson was responding to questions following the publication of media reports about classified information, supposedly from US government sources, put out in public domain, on support to terrorism by ISI-Pakistan’s military intelligence agency.
On Sunday, a website called WikiLeaks had published 91,000-odd US military documents which revealed how the ISI backed the Taliban and other terrorist outfits in Afghanistan, and their operations against India. “The utilisation of territory under Pakistan’s control to provide sanctuaries for recruiting and sustaining terrorist groups, and to direct terrorist activity against neighbours, must stop if our region is to attain its full potential for peaceful development,” the spokesperson noted.
The WikiLeaks expose of links between Pakistan’s official agencies and outfits such as the Taliban validates India’s oft-repeated assertion that the terrorist-establishment nexus is getting stronger and that the epicentre of terrorism lies in India’s neighbourhood.
The leaked documents confirmed the role of the ISI and the Taliban in organising a car bomb explosion through a suicide bomber outside the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008.