India to give ultimatum to UN Security Council on Pakistan

Not satisfied by Pakistan clamping down on the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) – blamed for the Mumbai blasts, including shutting down of their training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and alleged detention of senior LeT leaders – India is bracing to haul Pakistan over coal at the UN Security Council.
It is an ultimatum of sorts by India, and it is expected to underscore that in case the international community fails to take urgent action, “India will take action that it deems fit to safeguard its citizens”.
This is the strongest ever indictment of Pakistan by India. And moving away from the semantics, India is expected to tell the world body to put pressure on Pakistan to hand over those behind the Mumbai terror attacks, besides fugitives like Dawood Ibrahim, which it is seeking from Pakistan. Besides, it is expected to mention the clinching evidence it has about the involvement of Pakistan based terror groups behind the Mumbai terror attacks, including the fact that they were Pakistani nationals and were trained in Pakistan also by some Pakistani army officials as disclosed by the arrested terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab.
South Block sources say that Indian envoy to the UN, Nirupam Sen, is expected to make a strong pitch for international measures against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and India will raise the demand for strong action at a debate scheduled before the 15-member key body of the UN on December 9.
The UN Security Council that has five permanent members (US, Russia, UK, France and China) besides the ten non-permanent members already has two resolutions 1373 and 1566 that binds member states to clamp down on terrorist groups and their leaders and snap their source of funding, but New Delhi will argue that Pakistan has violated them.
Even though the Pakistani leaders have taken measures to detain some LeT leaders, sources see little possibility that they will hand them over to India. In fact, in response to India’s demarche, Pakistan has proposed a joint probe into the attacks to release pressure on the Zardari government, but sources here see it as a diversionary tactic. “These are only measures taken to fool the international community, if they are serious then they should hand over these terrorist and global terrorists like Dawood Ibrahim to us,” remarked a senior foreign official.
Officials believe that in case Pakistan is serious, it can hand over some of these fugitives that India has sought to the US, but the action has to be taken soon, maintain sources.
While Islamabad may dub its crackdown on LeT as strong action against terrorist groups, these are largely cosmetic measures, as earlier too the Pakistani government detained leaders of Jaish-e-Mohammed and LeT, but they were soon released and allowed to go scot-free. Not only that, they continued to run their terror operations under the garb of charities.
While Pakistan does not seem to realise the gravity of the situation, the indications seem to be clear that this time in case it does not take strong and transparent steps, India will not shy away from using tough measures at its disposal.