India's main concern must be 26/11

The main thrust of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level two- day talks
beginning from June 23 must be on Pak state and non-state actors’
involvement in 26/11 attack on Mumbai that killed 168 and injured
several others, besides the regular agenda how to promote friendship,
establish good neighbourly relation and strengthen Confidence building
measure. In view of the revelations made by David Coleman Headley, Pak
born American national and LeT operative in the custody of Chicago
police for the involvement in 26/11 and his associate and Pak - born
Canadian national Tawwahur Hussain Rana that Pak notorious Inter
Services Intelligence (ISI) planned, plotted and financed Pak-based LeT
men for the attack of Mumbai, India and all other countries afflicted
by terror across the globe must compel Pakistan to act against terror.
They have revealed all these things in the statement made by them
before the judge in the trial court of Chicago in America. Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold two-day talks in
Islamabad during which the Indian side is expected to press for
effective action against those behind the 26/11 attacks, including
elements in the ISI. In the talks on Jammu and Kashmir, Peace and
Security and confidence building measures, the Indian side is expected
to voice its concern over the nexus between ISI and 26/11 attackers as
highlighted during the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana in
Chicago.As they have made these statements before the judge, the bearings on
the involvement of Pak are a matter of great concern not only for the
victim country but for the entire world. So, before the start of
Foreign-Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, it would be
diplomatically beneficial for India to mobilise international community
to put pressure on Pakistan to act and talk on this very important
point with India and make its position clear once for all whether it is
going to do anything or not to ensure that there no similar attack by
the terrorists sent from across the border in India would take place in
future. If Pakistan connives with the issue, which it certaily would do if past
experiance of Indo-Pak talks is anything to go by, India must make to
clear that there would be no more initiative from its side to carry
forward the talks to composite level, which was suspended after 26/11. It is correct to say that there is no alternative but talk to improve
relations between the two hostile neighbours but no benefit is derived
from it uptill now. Then, there is no sense in continuing the dialogue
process even at Secretary or ministerial level at all. India is required to stand firm on its ground and never allow any space
to Pak to do away with one mischief after another.