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Pak terror groups planning attacks: Chidambaram

* Pakistan lacks will to prosecute Mumbai attackers

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: Pakistan-based terror organisations Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Hizbul Mujahideen are planning to infiltrate terrorists into India to “create mayhem”, an Indian newspaper quoted Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram as saying said on Sunday.

However Indian security forces were prepared to meet any external threat, he told Indian Express in an interview. Chidambaram said Pakistan lacked the will to prosecute and punish the perpetrators of last year’s Mumbai attacks and voiced concern over the spread of the Taliban, apprehending that the danger could spread to the rest of South Asia, including India.

“We go by the information or intelligence that we are able to gather. Our assessment of the inputs flowing into India is that the LT, the JM and the Hizbul Mujahideen are planning to infiltrate terrorists into India,” he said.

“Now obviously they are not trying to infiltrate for tourism purposes. They are being infiltrated to India to create mayhem here. Therefore, we say that the threat level has not diminished. That is what the prime minister said (in the Commanders Conference). There are many attempts which have been foiled even before they could (materialise),” he said in the interview. Asked how well prepared the country was to meet terrorism inspired from across the border, Chidambaram said, “We are prepared to meet any external threat. We are building capacity every day, every week, every month.”

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