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This is an archive article published on October 21, 2009

‘A good guy if you blow up Taj,bad if its Islamabad Marriot’

Shashi Tharoor noted that certain elements within the Pakistani establishment still make a distinction between 'good terrorist and bad terrorist'.

Noting that certain elements within the Pakistani establishment still make a distinction between “good terrorist and bad terrorist”,Minister of State for External Affairs,Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said Pakistan should fight militancy in any form.

“The good terrorists are the guys who kill Indians in India and the bad terrorists are those who attack Pakistani interests whether in Afghanistan or in Pakistan,” he said.

“In other words,you blow up the Taj Mahal hotel you’re a good guy,you blow up the Marriot in Islamabad you’re a bad guy,” he told CNN.

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The minister,however,stressed that such an outlook as not attributed to the highest levels of the neighbouring government but to “some elements”.

When asked if India was convinced that Pakistan was genuinely committed to ending the militancy,Tharoor noted that once the distinction between “good terrorists and bad terrorists” disappear,then it would finally “be a case of Dr Frankenstein really deciding he has to execute his own monster”.

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