‘India's neighbours, including Sri Lanka, harbour terrorists by choice or by default’ - Indian Foreign Secretary 
[December 18, 2002 - 9.30 GMT]

“India's neighbours, either by choice or default, by acts of omission or commission, were involved in harbouring terrorists and ignoring or tolerating terrorist activity directed against India from their soil. This included Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and, of course, Pakistan,” Indian Foreign Secretary, Kanwal Sibal said at the French International Relations Institute in Paris, The Hindu reported today.

The report said that Sibal who was in Paris for top-level political consultations, had described India as a “country wounded by terrorism.”

“If international terrorism is considered the most important problem facing the international community, then those calling for action cannot be seen to be adopting dual criteria or making distinctions between terrorism that cannot be tolerated and that which can,” he was quoted further.

 

 

 

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