We will root-out terror: Cabinet
PTI, July 14, 2006

New Delhi, July 14: The serial blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar on Thursday figured in the Union Cabinet meeting which passed a resolution condemning the outrageous terror attacks and asserted that nothing would deter the government from its firm policy to fight the menace till it is wiped out. 

The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was briefed on the incidents and the investigations underway to unravel the conspiracy. 

Security agencies are suspecting Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to be behind the terror attacks in Mumbai. 

Meeting for the first time after Tuesday's deadly attacks, the Cabinet observed a two-minute silence and passed a resolution, affirming that terrorists and their acts "will never be allowed" to check the country's march to economic growth and prosperity. 

The meeting lauded the spirit of the people of Mumbai and Jammu and Kashmir which "demonstrated very emphatically that terrorism cannot succeed." 

The Cabinet expressed "profound sense of shock and outrage at the series of blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar" which resulted in "heavy loss of life and suffering," said the resolution passed at the meeting. 

"It (Cabinet) condemns in the strongest terms the senseless, inhuman and dastardly attack by terrorists on tourists and the innocent people of this country," it said. 

The resolution emphasised the government's "strong commitment to combat terrorism in all its forms" and said "nothing will deter us from our firm policy to fight this menace till it is wiped out."