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Jammu: meet on security issues today

By Our Special Correspondent

A policeman stands guard in a deserted street during a general strike in Jammu on Wednesday. - Reuters

NEW DELHI MAY 15. The Union Home Minister, L. K. Advani, has called a high-level meeting tomorrow to discuss security issues following the terrorist attack in Jammu on Tuesday. The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, the Defence Minister, George Fernandes, and senior Home Ministry officials and Army officers are expected to attend the meeting here.

The Ministry seems to be waking up to the harsh reality that the global coalition against terrorism is not and will not prevent the kind of `fidayeen' attack that took place yesterday, when terrorists boldly entered an Army camp. The urgent need is for some credible response to this attack.

The Government also seems to have hardened its stance on its demand that the 20 wanted men, including the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, be handed over to India by Pakistan as a minimum response to show that Pakistan meant business when it talked of going all out to seek and finish extremists operating from its soil.

The Bharatiya Janata Party's attack on the United States today was also an indicator that the Government had seriously begun questioning the benefits accruing to India from the so-called global coalition against terrorism. Certainly, it may have to reluctantly come to the conclusion that the United States may not be willing or even be able to fight India's war against cross-border terrorism.

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