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Bhubaneswar: India should leverage its strategic partnership with the United States and put pressure on international community to get Pakistan`s ISI declared a terrorist organisation by UN Security Council, BJP said on Monday.
"The government should leverage its status of strategic partner with the US to expose the nexus among Pakistan`s ISI, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits," senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh told reporters here.
The Congress-led government should also put diplomatic pressure on international community to get the ISI declared a terrorist organisation by the United Nations Security Council, he said.
After the conviction of Tahawwur Rana by a Chicago court for providing material support to LeT, India has got another opportunity to mount pressure on Pakistan and the ISI, Singh said.
Stating that UPA regime`s failure to bring the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack to justice emanates from its "diplomatic myopia," the former BJP president claimed he had forewarned the Centre about ISI`s involvement in abetting and sponsoring anti-India terrorist activities from Pakistan.
"I had also urged the government to make diplomatic efforts to put ISI under international watch," he said.
To a query on the proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill 2011, Singh said BJP would not approve of the bill when it is tabled in Parliament.
