India allowed culprits to get away: Army Chief
New Delhi: Outraged by repeated attacks on
Indian targets by Pakistan-based terror groups, Army Chief
General Deepak Kapoor on Wednesday said the time had come for the
nation to say "no more" to any such incidents. "US has not allowed a second 9/11 to happen, Indonesia has not allowed a second Bali-bombing to happen. India has allowed people to get away after the Parliament attack, Delhi blasts and finally the 26/11 incident. The time for all of us
has come to say no more," Kapoor said at a CII seminar on
national security.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and other
Pakistan-based terror groups and that country's intelligence
agency ISI have been accused of involvement in terror strikes
in India.
The Army Chief said the country cannot afford to "witness
the repeat" of a 26/11-type attack and stressed the need for
creation of a nationwide architecture for sharing intelligence
and security-related information.
Kapoor said the need for the civil society was to come
together to tackle security threats as the South Asian region
"was going to be under a constant and continuous threat of
terrorism of asymmetric and fourth generation warfare".
Kapoor said the country needs to have a "conceived and
conceptualised" security architecture at national level for
improving security and the government should establish an
information grid for the purpose.
He said the earmarking of responsibilities of all the
Ministries, agencies and departments was also a "mandatory
step" for country's security.
Kapoor said the armed forces had embarked on their
modernisation drive and were planning to benefit from the
emerging technologies (the IT sector) "to tackle both
conventional and unconventional threats in a synergised and
integrated manner".
The Army Chief asked the Indian industry to play a
"responsible and important" role in improving national
security.
Bureau Report