For better Indo-Pak ties, India suppressed infiltration figures: WikiLeaks

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In its effort to improve its ties with Pakistan, India played down the spurt in infiltration from the neighbouring country in 2008 -- the year in which Pak-based terrorists carried out the Mumbai terror attack, according to a secret US cable released by WikiLeaks.

During his meeting with the visiting US Senators Russ Feingold and Bob Casey on May 30, 2008 in New Delhi, the then National Security Advisor, M K Narayanan, said that India has downplayed increase in infiltration and has not lodged a protest before the new Pakistani government as part of its effort to improve relationship with its neighbour, the cable said.

Narayanan noted that under (Pak) President (Pervez) Musharraf from 2004 to 2006, the Composite Dialogue moved forward and infiltration dropped. The political crisis in Pakistan in 2007 stalled progress.

He said that he was "hopeful" the new leadership would continue to see dialogue as useful, and not just as "something that Musharraf did," the cable said. "The recent Foreign Minister meetings in Islamabad helped ensure that the new government would sustain the Composite Dialogue," Narayanan recounted.

However, he regretted that infiltration and incidents have spiked recently.

He related that the Indian government has played them down and not lodged a formal protest, deciding instead to treat them as a "temporary aberration".

Narayanan remembered that hostility between India and Pakistan had dropped to such an extent that Pakistan had at one time withdrawn some of its military from the India-Pakistan border in order to focus on the threats along the border with Afghanistan, but those forces have since returned to the Indian border, the cable said. Asked by Senator Casey how India felt about the pacts signed between the Pakistani Army and tribal groups, Narayanan replied that the Indian government does not consider them conducive to peace.

Instead, he stated, "they are out-sourcing terror".

He acknowledged that the US understands this stance, but the British seem to think that the peace deals are a good move.

"Instead, Narayanan cautioned, the deals will allow the tribal groups to re-energise by withdrawing the pressure under which they might have relented," the cable said.

"Narayanan also advised the US to fight the war on the ground and avoid an air war, which he doubted would work against tribal groups. Senator Feingold said that he shared Narayanan's concerns about the peace agreements," the cable said.

According to Senator Feingold, during his May 28 visit to Islamabad, Pakistanis refrained from using harsh words to describe India.


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Told you this government is anti-India... it suppresses news of enemies attacking us from both Pakistan and China and the latest PLA downplaying is also for the same reason....
 

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i saw on cnn-ibn that indian government had warned US government about increasing number of white skin men present in pakistani terrorists camps before 26/11 attacks,this is also by wikileaks.
 

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the manmohan singh led government should has isindeed a national shame for all indians.
 

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if the downplaying infiltration number is not anti national iam not sure what is.
 

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