India: fallout from Bin Laden assault
Activists of India's Fight Against Terrorism Society burn a Pakistani national flag during an anti-Pakistan protest in New Delhi on May 8, 2011. (PRAKASH SINGH – AFP/Getty Images).
India's security establishment is worried that a deeply embarrassed Pakistani army might be tempted to ratchet up hostility towards India and even encourage the terrorist groups it allegedly controls to stage strikes on the Indian mainland, the Times of India reports.
Some Indian military and foreign policy experts feel that Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Kiyani's aggressive response to his Indian counterpart's claim that India could stage an Abbottabad-type operation indicates he hopes to use bellicose rhetoric to deflect popular anger over his perceived failure to stand up to the US, the paper said.
Meanwhile, there could well be fallout for the US-India relationship as well, writes India Today.
India's intelligence establishment is upset that America kept it in the dark about "ISI-run, anti-India terror camps on Pakistani soil," the magazine said, citing Wikileaks revelations about information that US officials obtained from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
The magazine said that a former Indian intelligence official, who was a participant in US-India intelligence exchanges as recently as last year, told the magazine that while relations between the intelligence agencies have improved in the recent years, Washington has never shared actionable and operational intelligence from the Guantanamo revelations.
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