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K.D. Viswanaathan,
Coimbatore

Pakistan has taken a step in the right direction. As a victim of terrorism, it should have no hesitation in wiping out the so-called stateless actors. One cannot but observe that Pervez Musharraf might have been a military dictator but he was effective in dealing with terror.

Thangkhochon Haokip,
New Delhi

It is one thing for New Delhi to accept President Asif Ali Zardari's challenge to provide adequate evidence to prove that the Mumbai blasts are linked to Pakistan. But we would like to know who is accountable for the entry of terrorists by land and sea with deadly weapons. Ministers being sacked or replaced is only symbolic. The causes of the systemic failure need to be dealt with more seriously. It is time we stopped blaming others for our grave inadequacies.

Rajesh Krishnan,
Bangalore

Some elements in the Pakistani establishment, hostile to India, have not been happy in recent times because the West, led by America, has stopped hyphenating India with Pakistan. India's role as an emerging economic power has led the West to change its view of India while Pakistan is being increasingly viewed as a failing or failed state grappling desperately with religious extremism.

M.P. Muralidharan,
Downers Grove, Illinois

As long as Pakistan is in the iron grip of the military and the ISI, it is futile to rely on it to fight terror. Secondly, a war between two nuclear weapon states will end in disaster and is hardly a solution to terror. Thirdly, terrorism ought to be viewed as a worldwide problem rooted in extremism. We should protect ourselves by putting in place the best possible instrumentalities under a Ministry of Security manned by experts with powers and responsibility to do everything to fight terror. What we have done so far is obviously not adequate.

K. Ponnuswami,
Chennai

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