New Delhi: Charging the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government with "lack of will" in crushing cross-border terrorism, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on July 22 demanded "Israeli-type" raids on terrorist bases wherever they were located.

Condemning the attack on Vaishno Devi pilgrims at Katra on July 21 night as "dastardly", VHP senior vice president Acharya Giriraj Kishore said, "Mere verbal condemnation will not do. We should pay tit for tat in the language they (terrorists) understand. Israeli type action should be carried out wherever terrorist hideouts are located.

"Nothing can be achieved with lack of will. We should be determined for a now-or-never action. If the government takes a resolve, people would support them. Efforts should be made to ensure that last night's attack was the last attack on Vaishno Devi pilgrims," he said.

Kishore said the attack was "shameful" as the state had a former Army General as its Governor. Alleging that state Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was sympathetic to terrorists, the VHP leader said he was "untrustworthy".

Kishore also said the attack exposed Pakistan's "double standards" as "on the one hand, it sends delegations on goodwill mission and on the other, carries out attacks on innocent pilgrims."

Interestingly Kishore, along with VHP working president Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, on July 21 had a meeting with Pakistani hardline leader Fazal-ur-Rahman, who is currently on a goodwill mission.

PTI