ISLAMABAD: India may carry out surgical strikes against individuals and groups linked to the Mumbai terror attacks in a "matter of days" ifPakistan does not act on "irrefutable evidence" against such elements, prominent US senator John McCain has warned.
There is enough evidence of the involvement of former ISI officers and generals in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks and of the existence of terrorist training camps in Pakistan, McCain told a small group of senior Pakistani journalists at an informal lunch in Lahore yesterday.
A report in the Daily Times quoted McCain as saying that he believed it could be a "matter of days" before India carried out surgical air strikes if Pakistan did not act on evidence provided to it on elements linked to the attacks.
According to the report, McCain had said that if "Pakistan does not act, and act fast, to arrest the involved people, India will be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan".
McCain, who visited New Delhi before coming to Islamabad, said this is what he and other visiting Senators were told by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who, as McCain put it, was "reeling from the shock" of the Nov 26 attacks.
Other sources privy to the meeting told PTI that McCain had pointedly referred to "irrefutable evidence" gathered by both the US and India about the involvement of Pakistani elements, including some retired generals and members of the Lashker-e-Taiba, in the attacks.
McCain also said that terrorist training camps were being emptied "as we speak", a senior editor present at the meeting told Dawn News channel.
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