Fine-tuning the anti-terror chorus

Official India made no secret of its strong feelings of dismay over Pakistan being accepted by the West as a key player in the emerging anti-terror coalition despite Islamabad's record of encouraging "cross-border terrorism" in Jammu and Kashmir.

While India's concerns about the ravages of externally- inspired terror are entirely understandable, New Delhi should avoid an unseemly competition with Pakistan to serve as a logistical frontline state' in the battle against Osama.

This may also explain why America's latest list of foreign terrorist organizations does not include some notorious outfits that seek to undermine India's authority in Jammu and Kashmir.

The genesis of some of these anti-India factions can be traced to Osama or his perverse ideology. Yet, the U.S., already wary of Pakistan's sensitivities in this regard, seems to have gone by the legal determination that the anti-India groups do not appear to threaten America's security interests in a direct manner at this specific moment.

-- The Hindu, New Delhi