•Saubhik Chakrabarti: Have we given up on Pakistan actually delivering anything substantive?

So far Pakistan has not demonstrated that seriousness or sincerity, which is most unfortunate.

•Saubhik Chakrabarti: So is there any ground for assuming that it might come about?

It would be in the interest of Pakistan itself.

•Saubhik Chakrabarti: From the point of view of your government and from the point of view of the country, is there any reason to assume that the pattern might change given what we are seeing from Islamabad?

Given their track record, much was not expected. So far, much has not changed. The organizations which were banned, proscribed by the United Nations, whether it is the Jamat-ud-Dawa, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad?????, all these organizations are banned but they have a free run also. It's about changing the signboards, locking the front gate and opening the side door. That is truly disturbing and disappointing. They have to get out of the denial mode and accept that they (the terrorists) are their nationals, that they must take action.

Had they done it on day one they would not have had any tension. There was no reason why any state should delay in taking action even when the UN Security Council asked them to take action. They say these were non-state actors. Then why should there be any effort to delay bringing them to justice? So there are many questions that have come up.

•Soma: Last March, the Secretary I&B had said the HITS?(Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS), a satellite-based digital delivery platform to distribute multiple channels to9 cable operators ) policy will be out in 30 days. It's been over 300 days now so when will we see the HITS policy?

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