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WASHINGTON: The United States should use drones to target Lashkar-e-Taiba hideouts if Pakistan does not destroy them, says a bipartisan US task force.
In a report to the Obama administration, the task force warns that another Mumbai-like attack could lead to a full-fledged war between India and Pakistan.
What were suggesting is that we include LeT in this target list, because if the Pakistanis arent willing to see this as a threat and indeed an existential threat to them, then we see it that way, and were going to prosecute it, Richard Armitage, former deputy Secretary of State, said.
Mr Armitage, while talking to the media after the release of the task forces report on Pakistan and Afghanistan, urged Islamabad to realise that the Haqqani network also posed an existential threat to the Pakistani state.
I would hope they would see the Haqqani network in the same way they see Pakistani Taliban, that this is ultimately a threat to them as well, said Mr Armitage.
On Lashkar-e-Taiba, they have to see this as something that could, in a single stroke, cause war between India and Pakistan, something that I think would delight Al Qaeda no end, he observed.
And why do I say this? LeT is trouble. As Ive already indicated, if they have one more strike, another Mumbai-type attack, I do not think the Indian government can be held back.
The US, he said, needed to take the LeT threat more seriously because they were also in Afghanistan.
Theyre killing us. I take it personally, Mr Armitage said.
If we cant be successful in the jawboning, pressuring or sticks, and carroting them into this, then in the long run, were dealing with very dangerous situation, Mr Armitage warned.
Daniel S. Markey, the reports lead writer, said the report suspected an unstable US-Pakistan relationship because lesser progress by Islamabad against combating terror would hamper their ties.
If we were to suffer an attack from Pakistan, we would be forced to, I think, take a very different line, he argued.
So its a recognition of that political reality, which leads us to look at what those alternatives would have to be. Its not a desire to go there, and its not an inherent threat or anything that were trying to level against the Pakistanis, he said.
Its a recognition of the strategic reality that we both face and how uncomfortable that is for both sides, Mr Markey added.
LeT hideouts should be hit by drones: US experts | DAWN.COM | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, World news, business, sport and multimedia
In a report to the Obama administration, the task force warns that another Mumbai-like attack could lead to a full-fledged war between India and Pakistan.
What were suggesting is that we include LeT in this target list, because if the Pakistanis arent willing to see this as a threat and indeed an existential threat to them, then we see it that way, and were going to prosecute it, Richard Armitage, former deputy Secretary of State, said.
Mr Armitage, while talking to the media after the release of the task forces report on Pakistan and Afghanistan, urged Islamabad to realise that the Haqqani network also posed an existential threat to the Pakistani state.
I would hope they would see the Haqqani network in the same way they see Pakistani Taliban, that this is ultimately a threat to them as well, said Mr Armitage.
On Lashkar-e-Taiba, they have to see this as something that could, in a single stroke, cause war between India and Pakistan, something that I think would delight Al Qaeda no end, he observed.
And why do I say this? LeT is trouble. As Ive already indicated, if they have one more strike, another Mumbai-type attack, I do not think the Indian government can be held back.
The US, he said, needed to take the LeT threat more seriously because they were also in Afghanistan.
Theyre killing us. I take it personally, Mr Armitage said.
If we cant be successful in the jawboning, pressuring or sticks, and carroting them into this, then in the long run, were dealing with very dangerous situation, Mr Armitage warned.
Daniel S. Markey, the reports lead writer, said the report suspected an unstable US-Pakistan relationship because lesser progress by Islamabad against combating terror would hamper their ties.
If we were to suffer an attack from Pakistan, we would be forced to, I think, take a very different line, he argued.
So its a recognition of that political reality, which leads us to look at what those alternatives would have to be. Its not a desire to go there, and its not an inherent threat or anything that were trying to level against the Pakistanis, he said.
Its a recognition of the strategic reality that we both face and how uncomfortable that is for both sides, Mr Markey added.
LeT hideouts should be hit by drones: US experts | DAWN.COM | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News, World news, business, sport and multimedia
May be DRDO is slow but developed systems for them self not painting others stuff and call them our.
