India won't enter B'desh to destroy terror camps: Pranab

KOLKATA: India has ruled out the possibility of entering Bangladesh to destroy terrorist camps there, but said it would continue to persuade the Bangladeshi government to dismantle them.

"How can we go to another country and destroy terrorist camps there? We will continue to persuade the government of Bangladesh to do it," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said when asked whether India would enter Bangladesh to destroy terrorist camps there as reportedly demanded by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

Media reports here said Bhattacharjee, at a meeting on internal security in Delhi on September 5, had asked the Centre to involve itself in destroying terrorist camps in Bangladesh.

To another question on the ISI's possible involvement in Friday's blasts in Malegaon, Mukherjee declined to comment, saying the matter was being investigated.