GIVEN the abiding animosity that India harbours against Pakistan, dating back to the days of the freedom movement, one should not be too surprised at the discovery of further evidence of its involvement in aiding the militants in South Waziristan whom the Pakistan Army is engaged in eliminating. As all indications, some concrete and some circumstantial, that India is fishing in troubled waters has been available for quite some time, the only surprise is that Islamabad has not taken up the matter, with the firmness that it merits, with New Delhi, Washington and other capitals, which routinely blame it for their woes in Afghanistan. They have been pointing to the 'support that Al-Qaida sanctuaries in the tribal belt allegedly give to the Afghan resistance as one of the main causes of their failure to defeat it. Therefore, it is only appropriate that not only these countries but also other friendly powers, which are equally eager that Pakistan put an effective end to the terrorist phenomenon, should have been suitably briefed and told that India must stop its nefarious activities if positive results are required. The nation now expects that the government would take all necessary countermeasures against the latest concrete evidence found by the army when it was clearing Sherawangi area located near Kaniguram. At a joint press conference the Information Minister and ISPR spokesman revealed that a huge quantity of Indian arms and ammunition, literature, medical equipment and medicines has been recovered. And Minister Kaira held out the assurance that Pakistan would take it up with India through diplomatic channels. One hopes the matter would be pursued at the international level as well. New Delhis false accusations against Pakistan stick because its propaganda machinery works at full blast, while Islamabad manages, as in several other areas, to raise only a feeble cry that is drowned in the overall noisy allegations that Pakistan is the epicentre of militancy and extremism. As if the ISAF were conspiring with India to make matters worse for Pakistan, they deemed it fit to relocate their posts on the Pak-Afghan border as soon as the military action in South Waziristan Agency appeared to be making progress. The removal of posts from locations, which provide relatively easier escape routes to the fleering militants from SWA, would come as a God-given boon to them should they come under pressure from the advancing Pakistan Army. COAS General Kayani is reported to have pressed the point with ISAF top commander General McChrystal that the readjustment of these posts would work against their joint pursuit of war on terror and hopefully the move would be reversed.