Flag of Indian ArmyMilitary Chiefs Urge Raid Inside Pakistan
-- The Australian
-- The Australian
PAKISTAN was bracing last night for a retaliatory airstrike by India against the sprawling headquarters of the al-Qa'ida-linked Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist organisation near Lahore.
As Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari warned the LET militants "had the power to precipitate war in the region", India demanded that Islamabad hand over a list of about 20 people, including India's most-wanted man Dawood Ibrahim.
India's military chiefs were exerting strong pressure on the country's political leaders to give permission to attack the headquarters, an 80ha site at Muridke, close to the Punjab capital of Lahore, just across the border from India.
The reports came as the Indian Government summoned the Pakistani high commissioner in New Delhi yesterday to demand "strong action" against the Pakistani militants who it says were responsible for last week's attacks on Mumbai.
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My Comment: Such an action will put both countries at the brink of war .... if not at war. But I can understand the Indian Government's frustration with Pakistan .... they do not walk the talk, and they are not going to eliminate the homegrown terrorist groups that target India..