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In the wake of the confession by Canadian Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Bhartiya Janata party asked the government to not hold any talks with Pakistan.
"Pakistan had assured India in 2004 that it would not allow terrorists organisations to launch terror attacks against India. But despite that, the Pakistan government and the Inter-Services Intelligence continue to support terrorist activities," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar.
He expressed shock over External Affairs minister S M Krishna's statement that talks would continue despite Rana's revelations that ISI had engineered the 26/11 conspiracy and it had government sanction.
"The Indian government should really capitalise on this opportunity to expose the direct role of Pakistan government on the global forums. We would like to know under whose pressure the Indian government is not using this opportunity to tell the truth to the whole world," he asked.
The BJP further demanded that, "India should not show any leniency until Pakistan accepts its responsibility and acts effectively against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack and dismantles its terror infrastructure," he said.
"It is now evident that ISI was not playing just a peripheral role but actually controlling and coordinating the attacks from the beginning till the end. Both Headley and Rana have named many ISI officers who were involved in the planning and the execution of the attack," he said.
"Pakistan's complicity is on display when the main perpetrators of the 26/11 attack Hafeez Sayeed and Zaki-ur-rehman-Lakhvi are roaming freely and spiting venom against India. It clearly proves that the Pakistan government's attitude has not changed a bit," he added.
The party said that the Indian government should exert appropriate diplomatic pressure on Pakistan and should not exhibit any haste in holding talks.