'Delinking ISI From Terror Groups Is A Work In Progress'
'The most effective way, in our mind, is to work with the Pakistanis to eliminate these groups from their soil'
As India threatens to roll back its diplomatic ties with Pakistan, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
spoke to
in Washington:
Post-Mumbai, does the Bush administration support calls in India to strike suspected terrorist sites in Pakistan?
The US attacks terror suspects in Pakistan's tribal areas but you advise India to pursue the path of diplomacy. Why?
What's your reaction to talk in India about rolling back ties with Pakistan?
There are high expectations in India that the US can help bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage to justice. Are such expectations justified?
India wants the Mumbai masterminds to be handed over to New Delhi or Washington. Will Washington place such demands on Pakistan?
But have Pakistani officials given the US access to these terror suspects?
Pakistan's PM Gilani says he doesn't believe evidence in the Mumbai dossier is credible. Do you believe this evidence is credible?
The coalition government in Delhi goes to polls in another few months. Do you think the current crisis is driven by the fact that the government will have to tell the people what its response to Mumbai was?
What's your sense of the maximum Pakistan is willing to give and the minimum India's willing to settle for?
Have multiple power centres in Pakistan complicated the Pakistan government's response?
Do you feel the Pakistani government has done enough to delink the ISI from these terrorist groups?
But are you satisfied with what has been done so far?
Do you agree with India's claims that ISI elements engineered Mumbai?
Pakistan has been wary of India's involvement in Afghanistan. Did you think this is still the case on your recent visit to the subcontinent?
There is talk that the Obama administration will appoint a special envoy on South Asia. What role will such an envoy play?
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