Pakistan at its old game

Pak flip-flop on Saeed
;Agencies

Islamabad, 14 JULY: Pakistan's Punjab provincial government today decided to withdraw its appeal against the release of JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, a key accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, but the federal government is pressing ahead with its case in the Supreme Court.
Punjab's surprise move caused a flutter coming as it did hours before a meeting between foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan in Egypt on the margins of Nam summit to review the progress made by Islamabad to bring to book perpetrators of Mumbai attacks.
The state Advocate General Muhammad Raza Farooq told the Supreme Court when it resumed hearing on the two appeals that the provincial government wanted to withdraw its petition as it did not have adequate evidence against the JuD chief.
The court adjourned the matter till Thursday without any decision on Punjab government's request to withdraw its appeal.
However, the federal appeal remains and the Supreme Court will take up the matter on 16 July.
Advocate General Farooq also told the court that federal authorities had not shared any proof against Saeed with the Punjab government.
The Supreme Court yesterday began hearing the two petitions filed by the federal and Punjab governments to challenge Saeed's release on the orders of the Lahore High Court on 2 June.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, India today demanded a “visible response” and undertaking from Pakistan on bringing the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attacks to justice as officials and leaders of the two countries prepare to meet here to review Islamabad's actions on its promises. Foreign secretary Mr Shivshankar Menon will meet his Pakistani counterpart Mr Salman Bashir ahead of the parleys Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will have with his counterpart Mr Gilani on Thursday.
External affairs minister Mr SM Krishna told reporters that India would like a “visible response” from Pakistan whose commitment is to bring to justice the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks and the earlier attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul. “I think Pakistan should give us an undertaking that they will not let their soil to be used for terrorist activities directed against India,” he said.
Mr Menon, who is accompanying Dr Singh on his trip to Paris and from there to the Egyptian Red Sea resort for the Nam Summit, will meet his Pakistani counterpart Mr Salman Bashir and prepare the basis for the Prime Ministers' meeting.
The officials will report to their principals on their discussions which India wants focused on Pakistan's action against the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks.

If India expects any help from Pakistan, it is living in a fool's paradise.
The military is hands in glove with the terrorists and so it cannot even stop their terrorists activities in Pakistan itself.
How can you expect a stone to teach you to swim for it does not itself know how to swim itself.
Pakistan and its army makes a show of taking action against the terrorists every now and then so that the aid pipe line from USA and the European Union does not stop.
If India wants to stop terrorists activities from Pakistan soil it will have to adopt the Israeli policy of bombing their camps every now and then.
If then, Pakistan goes to war, so be it. We have had enough of their nonsense.
India should also set up a special task force which would enter Pakistan and kidnap these terrorists.
I remember, some years back, how the Israeli secret service had kidnapped and flown back one of the Nazi conspirators from Argentina to stand trial in Israel.If I remember right, his name was Eichmann.
Then there was the bringing back of a plane which was hijacked and taken to Uganda during Idi Amin's time. This was made famous by the book Nine Minutes at Entebbe.
Within 9 minutes, they completed the whole operation, losing just one lady passenger.
Unless India starts proactive action, we will always be at the receiving end of the Pakistan terrorists activities.