India has described organisers" of Mumbai and Kabul embassy attacks as "clients and creations" of Pakistan's ISI.
Virtually blaming ISI for the Mumbai attacks, India said on Thursday that the organisers of the Mumbai carnage were "clients and creations" of Pakistan's intelligence agency and Islamabad continues to act in an evasive manner even after being provided evidence.
Addressing an international conference in Paris on Wednesday, foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said India lives "next to the epicentre of international terrorism in Pakistan".
Referring to the Mumbai attacks as also the Kabul embassy attack of July last year, he said "in each case, the perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organisers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI."
The foreign secretary said two months after the Mumbai attacks and one month after India presented a "dossier of evidence" linking the attacks to elements in Pakistan, "we still await a response from the Pakistani authorities, and prevarication continues".
India has "directly suffered the consequences of linkages and relationships among terrorist organisations, their support structures, official sponsors and funding mechanisms, which transcend national borders but operate within them," he said in a clear reference to Pakistan.
"Those responsible for the Mumbai attacks follow an ideology that recognises no borders, and are known to be preparing attacks not only just in the neighbourhood but across the world," Menon said.
The foreign secretary said the effects of the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan have been felt in Afghanistan for a long time too.
"Any compromise with such forces, howsoever pragmatic or opportune it might appear momentarily, only encourages them," he said at Institute Francais des Relations Internationales.
Describing the "polity beside us" as "fragile and unfinished", Menon said "there is much that the international community can do to help".
Citing arms sales to Pakistan, he underlined that it is "totally unrelated" to the fight against terrorism and acts like "whisky to an alcoholic, a drug reinforcing an addiction, skewing the internal political balance and making the consolidation of democracy more difficult."
This was apparently a message to the US and some other western countries which are selling arms to Pakistan in the name of fight against terrorism.
Underlining that India was seeking a peaceful periphery in "our own interest", he said New Delhi will work with all those in Pakistan and the international community who further that goal.
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