India can snap Pak ties

The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidam-baram, has said that India would break off business, transport and tourist links with Pakistan and isolate it from the rest of the world if it fails to help to investigate the 26/11 terrorist attacks, according to a report here. Accusing Pakistan of doing nothing to assist India in the investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Mr Chidambaram told London’s Times in an interview that Islamabad had done nothing to help. “Zero. What have they provided? Nothing,” he said.

Indicating the line of act-ion India would take against Pakistan, Mr Chidambaram, who took over as the home minister after 26/11 attacks, said: “There are many, many links between India and Pakistan, and if Pakistan does not cooperate and does not help to bring the perpetrators to heel, those ties will become weaker and weaker and one day snap.”

“Why would we entertain Pakistani business people? Why would we entertain tourists in India? Why would we send tourists there?” he said. However, Mr Chidamb-aram did not reveal when India might introduce these measures against Pakistan. He only said: “We need cooperation soon.” The newspaper also quoted an unnamed senior government source in India as denying any link between Kashmir and the Mumbai terror attacks