security coming from any quarter, defence minister A K Antony said in
wake of a
warning from a top al-Qaida commander.
"One thing I can tell you. Whatever threat coming from any quarter,
our armed forces are always ready to face them," Antony said on the
sidelines of a function here.
He was replying to a question on reports about a top al-Qaida
commander warning India of more Mumbai-style terror strikes if it
tried to attack Pakistan.
Antony, however, said he had not come across this particular report.
Commenting on Pakistan's demand for more information from India to
complete its probe into the Mumbai terror attack, Antony said he had
nothing more to add than what external affairs minister Pranab
Mukherjee had said on the matter.
"My senior colleague Mukherjee had already made India's position clear
on the matter. He had already explained this categorically. We are one
Government, one voice," he added.
The al-Qaida commander who was reported killed in a US drone strike
last year, has appeared in a video warning India of more Mumbai-style
attacks if it tried to attack Pakistan.
"India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it
attacks Pakistan," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, believed to be al-Qaida's
military commander in Afghanistan and ranked behind No 2 Ayman
al-Zawahiri, said in a 20-minute video in Arabic received by BBC.
Yazid, who the Pakistani military said may have been killed in
fighting last August in the Bajaur tribal region, said: "The
Mujahideen will sunder your armies into the ground, like they did to
the Russians in Afghanistan.
"They will target your economic centres and raze them to the ground.
