Pakistan lacks will to tackle terrorism: Pranab

“As this week’s reprehensible attack on 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,” External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi.

He 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.”

Mukherjee said this threat needed the efforts of the international community at large to “ensure that it is eliminated on an urgent basis.

“Otherwise,no part of the world would remain immune to the flames being ignited there,” Mukherjee said pointing out that the developments in Pakistan were the “most disturbing” for every right thinking person in the world and “without doubt,for us Indians.”

The world is “slowly but surely” moving in the direction of reaching the threshold of zero tolerance of terrorism,he said.