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Terrorists bad only when
US the victim?: Sinha

"We get the feeling that terrorists are bad only when they are attacking the US. The war against terrorism is being fought with standards that are open to question," External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha was on Thursday quoted as saying by the Washington Times.

"We realise the problem of the international community. It won't pressurise General Musharraf beyond a point because they fear the alternative to Musharraf in Pakistan is more fundamentalism. But he has been pushed to the wall on Afghanistan and still was able to get 98.5 per cent in a referendum. But you say that on Kashmir he cannot be pushed?"

"(Deputy Secretary of State Richard) Armitage told us that Musharraf has promised a permanent end to infiltration and made these points: One, it will be visible. Two, it will be to your satisfaction. Three, he would dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism," Sinha said.

The infiltration levels declined during June and July but began picking up again in August and September. "General Musharraf made a promise to Richard Armitage, but he has not kept it," Sinha said.

The paper said evidence shown by New Delhi to Washington included aerial surveillance photographs of purported training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, statements by captured infiltrators, intercepts of radio transmissions and notebooks seized from killed or captured insurgents.

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