India will hunt for terrorists |
The Line of Control (LoC) will no longer be sacrosanct for India if Pakistan continues to export terrorists. This was indicated by India to Pakistan after the September 29 surgical strikes, which took Indian troops into Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) to strike against terrorist launch pads. India`s current stand is different from that of 1999. The Kargil conflict compelled Pakistan to respect the LoC as inviolable. After Pakistan tried to redraw the line with its Kargil intrusion and was forced back, then US president Bill Clinton said that borders should not be redrawn in blood.But recently, Pakistan`s relentless export of terrorists across the LoC has been a breach of that understanding. New Delhi is indicating that India too reserves the right to breach the LoC in pursuit of terrorists, even pre-emptively.
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