All links with Pakistan to be closed if no coop: India

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - India plans to break off business, transport and tourist links with Pakistan and isolate it from the rest of the world if it fails to help to investigate the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Indian Home Minister Chidambaram told The Times on Monday.
Speaking in an interview that will raise the temperature further between the two countries, Palaniappan Chidambaram accused Pakistan of doing nothing to assist India bring to justice the perpetrators of the attacks on the country’s financial capital, which killed 165 people between November 26 and 29.
Asked what Pakistan was doing to help with the investigation, in which India handed over a dossier of evidence to its neighbour last week, Chidambaram said: “Zero. What have they provided? Nothing.”
The minister - who will brief David Miliband on the investigation’s progress in Delhi - gave an indication of action that would be taken if Pakistan continued to refuse to investigate the attacks, blamed by India on militants with links to the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).
“There are many, many links between India and Pakistan, and if Pakistan does not cooperate and does not help to bring the perpetrators to heel, those ties will become weaker and weaker and one day snap,” he said.
“Why would we entertain Pakistani business people? Why would we entertain tourists in India? Why would we send tourists there?” Chidambaram refused to discuss when such measures might be introduced, but said: “We need co-operation soon.”
Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani Prime Minister, further infuriated the Indian Government by carrying out interviews saying that the attacks were related to the disputed territory of Kashmir.
“Gilani is living in a world of his own if he brings Kashmir into this,” a senior Indian government source told The Times. “The simple fact is that Pakistan is a failing, but not yet a failed state. That is what he needs to address.”