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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee warned on Thursday against the growing network of Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia and asserted that the challenge posed by terrorists must be fought unitedly.
"I believe the Al Qaeda network is growing and we all together have to meet the challenge," he told reporters during a technical halt in the Thai capital Bangkok while returning home from Cambodia.
Referring to his talks with the leadership in Singapore in the first leg of his five-day two-nation tour, Vajpayee said Singapore was of the impression that terrorism had affected certain areas in the Middle East and Jammu & Kashmir.
Observing that several countries felt that stress should be laid on curbing Islamic fundamentalism, the prime minister said Singapore could not even imagine that the Al Qaeda network had spread to it.
The Singapore police succeeded in arresting Al Qaeda members who confessed in court there that even if they were punished, they would carry on with terrorism after their release, Vajpayee said.
PTI
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