NEW DELHI: India hopes to persuade the US to put pressure on Pakistan to come down heavily on terror groups on its soil with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon leaving for Washington Monday to meet the transition team of president-elect Barack Obama. Menon is likely to meet influential figures in the transition team that includes Wendy Sherman, the co-chair of the state department's Agency Review Team, which is tasked with preparing policy and personnel for the soon-to-be-named secretaries. "The foreign secretary will raise India's concerns, especially after the recent spate of terror attacks, with Obama's transition team seeking America's help to put pressure on Pakistan to curb terrorism," said a senior official in the cabinet secretariat. The meeting has gained added urgency after the Mumbai terror attack that killed 183 lives and injured over 300, said the official.
And I think people are entitled to ask the indian government about its indifference to hindu terrorism against the indian muslim community. If anything breeds this sort of outrage, then looking at the continued unchecked violence against the indiam muslim population is a good place to start.
Blowback is a bitch and the old cold war powers have been playing Great game politics in this patch of the owrld for decades, and caused considerable damage to the local political establishments. Trouble is, Obama seems to want to make things worse. keep to the Fen Causeway
