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The resolution of the Pakistan National Assembly urging India to dismantle what it calls terrorist infrastructure on its soil is the height of absurdity. The Pakistan government’s claim that it is not yet clear whether Ajmal Amir Iman is a Pakistani national and the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s retraction of his own statement that the gunman’s village in Pakistan has been sealed show that the country is still in the grip of the army and the ISI.

Vaidyanathan K. Iyer,

Paloncha

We have been pushed to the brink of a war with Pakistan, with the civilian government there swallowing its words and speaking lies after lies at the behest of the army and the ISI. All this could have been avoided and 200 lives saved had our government paid better attention to intelligence reports and asked our armed forces to take pre-emptive action if intrusion by terrorists was detected.

N. Rajan,

Thiruvananthapuram Many Indians feel enough is enough and want India to attack Pakistan soon. Any drastic action will harm not only India and Pakistan but the whole world. This does not mean no action should be taken against terrorism. India should force the world to unite and pressure Pakistan to support it.

Hitesh Choudhary,

Indore

V.S. Venkatavaradan,

Salem

I wish to ask the misguided ‘fidayeen’ who act under the instructions of the Lashkar-e-Taiba why their leaders Zaki-ur-Rehman ‘chacha’ Lakhvi, Hafiz Saeed, or any of their other trainers do not accompany them on their missions. Why didn’t they lead from the front in Mumbai? Is it because they are afraid of dying? I also wish to tell Ajmal Amir Iman ‘Kasab,’ the captured terrorist, that his country has disowned him — the question of legal aid for him does not even arise. The Wakf Boards in India declared that none of the nine terrorists killed in Mumbai would be given an Islamic burial.

Thus the fidayeen’s bosses and their country disown them after they cease to be useful to them. And the religion in whose name they indulge in terror wants to have nothing to do with them. Who do they fight for?

D.A. Jog,

Caranzalem

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