New Delhi has emphasised that the war on terror has not ended with the death of Osama bin laden, asserting the need for more steps to bring more Mumbai 26/11 perpetraters and conspirators to justice.

However, the policy of engaging Pakistan through talks was endorsed.

Congress said that there is no contradiction in the approach while BJP urged the govt to rethink.

A meeting of the party’s Core Group  discussed the bin Laden’s killing and suggestions that he could not have been living there without the possible connivance of ISI and other authorities.

The main opposition hailed the elimination of bin Laden as a “high point of the global war on terror”.

“The fact that Osama was housed in a mansion close to a Pakistani Military academy establishes that Pakistan is the epicenter of global terrorism which was harbouring the most wanted global terrorist,” Jaitley said.

“India’s legitimate concern that those who have perpetrated terror in India are also housed comfortably in Pakistan is no longer in doubt. Pakistan can no longer claim that it is a victim of terror. Those who use terrorism as an instrument of state policy will always suffer due to their duplicity,” the party said in its statement.