Gurdaspur attack: Expert says Pak sponsoring terrorism, won't punish terrorists

Accusing the Pakistani state of sponsoring terrorism, security expert Ajay Sawhney has said that the night vision cameras and GPS readings retrieved as evidence from the three terrorists, who attacked the Punjab border district of Gurdaspur and killed six people before being shot dead, will not have any impact on the 30-year-old war against terrorism and on the case against the Islamic republic.

He noted, "It is the Pakistani state that is behind this entire movement of terrorism and we are asking the Pakistani state to punish its own instruments. It's not going to happen."

While noting that the cumulative evidence against Pakistan was 'overwhelming,' Sawhney remarked, "None of this evidence has any real relevance". He said that what we are doing now was taking the evidence and keeping it before the accused, asking him to judge himself. "He will never punish himself," Sawhney said.

"There is no independent adjudicatory authority in the world before whom we can take this evidence and say please punish Pakistan or please punish those who are responsible for this in Pakistan. No country in the world is interested in what is happening between India and Pakistan except when their security interest or their national interest is involved.Eventually, India will have to learn to fight its own wars and its own battles or it will be left to suffer from a permanent campaign of attrition, which Pak has launched against it," Sawhney said.

He remarked that any dialogue between India and Pakistan will be a 'zero-impact dialogue' and denied that it will have any 'substantial impact' on India's security.

As per reports, the cracking of the GPS devices found on the three terrorists, who attacked a police station in Punjab, showed that their location on July 21 was in Pakistan. The initial reports, however, suggest that their exact locations in Pakistan were deleted from the device.

The three terrorists, who were armed with mortars and night-vision devices, apart from AK-47s, reportedly crossed the Ravi on the border and came to Dinanagar by taking the route to the railway track.

The GPS devices also showed they were activated at Talwandi Point in Gurdaspur's Parmanand village and their next target was civil lines in Gurdaspur town, around 25 km from Dinanagar.