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Sanctions should be imposed on Pakistan, Bangladesh: Rajnath Singh

HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh urged the Centre to mount pressure on the United Nations Security Council to warn Pakistan and Bangladesh that economic sanctions would be imposed if they failed to comply with its resolution 1373 on containing terrorism.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, he demanded that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government intensify diplomatic efforts to enforce the resolution. Pakistan and Bangladesh were neither cooperating in the war against terrorism nor ready to dismantle the terrorist training centres and infrastructure.

Charging the UPA government with being soft on terrorism, he said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had not mentioned terrorism during his speech on August 15 from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

“Every State has a sleeper module today. ISI-aided sleeper modules are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.” He accused the government of neither having any policy nor the political will to deal with this “deadly menace.”

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