•The appointment of an independent technical review committee of foreign experts to oversee preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi is a big blow to the Indian organisers (‘Foreign ‘experts’ to monitor Kalmadi & Co’, IE, October 13). This is not the proper stage and time to challenge this action of the Commonwealth Games Federation, but to accept it and concentrate more on the lacunae still existing in the preparation process. This is an international sporting event which will be a great honour for our country and boost our indigenous sports. As stakeholders, this is the time for the Union and Delhi governments to take action.

— Nagesh Tekale

Mumbai

Unredeemable?

• The editorial ‘Three alerts’ (IE, October 12) regarding the terrorists in Pakistan is a wake-up call for Pakistan’s ruling elite to see the gravity of the situation: suicide bombers are bent on chipping away at the foundation of state structures. There’s no way the situation can be redeemed or fixed. Islamabad’s hostility to India, its symbiotic relationship with the US and its fatal attraction for cosseting jihadists within its territory and in Afghanistan have the resilience of an umbilical cord which can never be severed. So Pakistan is trapped in its own ideological framework and even a hundred alerts wouldn’t force its rulers and military to change gear and reverse policy.

— John Alexander

Nagpur

Enemy within

•Attacks by terrorists, as on the Pakistan Army Head Quarters, have become a regular feature. This shows Pakistan’s civilian government’s declining control over law and order. Pakistan seems to be slowly slipping into anarchy which is a concern for the United States, and India in particular. Within the Pakistan army and the ISI, sympathisers abound, encouraging various terror outfits. Such elements will continue to have chronic ill effects in the form of terror attacks in Pakistan.

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