- (AFP) - Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani will
ask Washington to identify Pakistan as a "terrorist state" during
a visit next month to the United States, he said in an interview.
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- "I will obviously communicate our position and the
detailed evidence we have. This leaves no doubt that Pakistan is a
terrorist
state," Advani told the Hindustan Times published Sunday.
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- "I feel that the US has a clear choice and it cannot
afford to have double standards. All terrorists are the same."
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- The hawkish home minister, who is India's cabinet number
two, said he had told US Secretary of State Colin Powell that it was
difficult
for the Indian public to understand how Pakistan is part of the US-led
"coalition against terrorism."
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- "There is a terrible dichotomy there," Advani
said.
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- India and Pakistan have mounted a sharp war of words
following an attack by a suicide squad on the Indian parliament on December
13, which New Delhi alleges had the backing of Pakistan.
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- India on Friday recalled its ambassador to Islamabad
and severed rail and bus links with Pakistan, in a move Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf described as a "very arrogant and kneejerk
response."
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- India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars
since independence from British rule in 1947.
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- India last recalled its ambassador during the 1971 war
with Pakistan which led to the creation of Bangladesh, formerly East
Pakistan.
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