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Onkar Singh in New Delhi
Central Bureau of Investigation Director P C Sharma, who is leading a five-member Indian delegation at Interpol's general assembly in Budapest, Hungary, has called for an international law on the extradition of terrorists.
Intervening in a discussion on the draft resolution on international terrorism, Sharma said the time had come for member countries to think in terms of having such a law.
"It is not sufficient to merely locate and identify suspected terrorists," he pointed out.
After the terrorist attacks on the United States, he said, it had become even more imperative for all countries to demonstrate their will to fight the scourge.
He said there was a need to incorporate in an unequivocal manner a condemnation of trans-border terrorism or the "tendency of countries to engage in a proxy war, encouraging, supplying and training terrorists while claiming to be champions of freedom and democracy".
Briefing reporters in New Delhi about the proceedings in Budapest, CBI spokesman S M Khan said the Indian delegation proposed that a mechanism be devised to pass on information about terrorists to the Interpol secretariat in Lyon, France in a timely manner.
"The director, CBI, has called for quick, effective and timely sharing of information on terrorists operating in various countries," Khan told rediff.com
He admitted, however, that Interpol would not have any effect in Afghanistan because that country is not a member of the international police organisation.
He noted that though Pakistan is a member of Interpol, it too has done little to arrest the seven men wanted in connection with the hijack of Indian Airlines Flight IC-814 to Kandahar in December 1999.
The CBI had issued red-corner alerts against the men through Interpol soon after the hijack.
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