Lahore attack showed Pak's lack of will to tackle terror: India

In the wake of the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, India on Friday, said the incident showed Pakistan's lack of will or ability to tackle terror and warned that no part of the world would be saved from the "flames being ignited there".

External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee asked the international community to ensure that the threat emanating from Pakistan is "eliminated on an urgent basis.

"Otherwise, no part of the world would remain immune to the flames being ignited there," he said at the India Today Conclave here.

Mukherjee described the Lahore attack as the "most disturbing" development for the world, particularly for India.

"As this week's reprehensible attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore shows, government's lack of will or capability in tackling this menace becomes a major hindrance in the smooth process of change," he said.

The minister also stressed that nations that have used terror as an instrument of state policy should be left with no choice but to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorism and "actively cooperate" with the international community to eliminate this scourge."

"This threat needs the efforts of the international community at large to ensure that it is eliminated on an urgent basis," Mukherjee said.