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India skeptical about ISI terming militants as greatest threat to Pak | New Delhi is likely to be skeptical about an internal assessment done by Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, which has found for the first time in 63 years, that it expects a majority of threats to come from homegrown militants rather than India, which
was till now considered the greatest threat to Pakistan's security. The ISI says that homegrown Islamist militants have overtaken the Indian army as the greatest
threat to Pakistan , a finding with potential ramifications for relations between
the two rival nations and for the US-led war in Afghanistan . Reviewing national
security, the ISI's assessment gives a two-thirds likelihood of a major threat
to the state coming from militants rather than from India or elsewhere, The Wall
Street Journal reports. India wants real action rather than an assessment of risk
and New Delhi thinks Pakistan has not done enough to crack down on the perpetrators
of the Mumbai attacks in 2008. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during an Independence
Day speech on Sunday, said more action on that front is a prerequisite to better
relations with Pakistan . Indian observers are also wary about whether the ISI's
mainstream, which authored the security assessment, are able to control rogue
elements former ISI and military officers that many in India and the US believe
have maintained ties with militants, the WSJ reports. "It's a good development,
provided the bulk of the ISI, including retired officers, take a hint," said Naresh
Chandra, chairman of the National Security Advisory Board. |
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