PRAGOTI

Somen, you are reading the UN resolution the way BJP or the US wants to read it. it nowhere calls for the enactment of specific anti-terror law; it states: "such terrorist acts are established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the seriousness of such terrorist acts". this is already the case under existing Indian law. not clear how the ascertaining of the credentials of asylum seekers that they are not terrorists can be used instead of "extermination". the Iceland case was so outlandish that there was a hue and cry in UK itself against it. Not sure how and why India will take such absurd steps in the name of this resolution. if you read the CPI (M) statement properly, you'll find that US style "war on terror" has been categorically rejected as a possible response. the UN resolution has been mentioned, to my mind, precisely to chart out a diplomatic alternative to war mongering in India. please do not misunderstand/misread.