Bhartiya Janata party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar, has urged the government expose Pakistan after David Headly told the Chicago trial court about the links between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and various terror groups during the preliminary hearing of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's Mumbai attack.
"He said that the ISI had trained the terrorists and provided them with financial and logistic support in carrying out the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in 2008. And the fact that Osama Bin Laden was killed by American marines in a daring operation just 60 kilometres away from Pakistan's capital Islamabad is just more evidence," Javadekar told rediff.com.
"Headley's statements about Tahawwar Rana and the ISI's role is a vindication of our stand that Pakistan has become the epicentre of the world for spreading terror to other countries," he said.
Addressing a press conference earlier in the day BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that de-nuclearisation of Pakistan has become a global necessity.
"Security is a matter of grave concern in Pakistan. The latest attack on the Pakistani Naval base in Mehran is a cruel reminder of the situation which Pakistan is facing for over a decade. There have been many incidents of terrorists, especially the Taliban targeting the Pakistani military and other strategic installations," he said.
"Let's look at the facts: Beginning with the March 8 2011 attack on Faisalabad military camp (32 killed), February 10 - Mardan (31 army personal killed), March 12 -- Lahore cantonment headquarters of Federal Investigative Agency (40 killed), December 2, 2009- Pakistani Navy headquarters attacked in Islamabad (2 killed), November 2, 2009 Rawalpindi (military personal queued up for salary attacked), October 10, 2009- Army headquarters in Rawalpindi attacked," he added.
The recent attack occurred at a time when Pakistan was in a state of high alert. Pakistan 's vulnerability and its installations are no secret now. Now it has emerged as the world's fourth largest repository of nuclear arsenal in the world," he said.
"We are aware that Pakistan today has the fourth largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. We know rogues of Taliban who have been targeting military facilities will try to lay their hands on nuclear weapons in an attempt o make a dirty bomb," Rudy said.
"The situation is not just a matter of worry for countries in Southeast Asia and India, but it is a imminent security threat to Pakistan itself, and then to the whole world," Rudy told mediapersons.
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