The US authorities seem to be increasingly focussing, inter alia, on the likely involvement of Osama bin Laden's set-up in the terrorist incidents on September 11, which President George Bush described on Thursday as the beginning of the first war of the new millennium.

Bush expressed the US determination to fight this war till victory is won; NATO countries and Russia have expressed their solidarity with the US in this matter. The support of India, the greatest victim of Pakistan and Afghanistan-based international Islamic terrorism, would be natural.

As part of the US's counter-offensive to make the world safe from international Islamic terrorism, Bush has, through Colin Powell, his secretary of state, and Wendy Chamberlin, the US ambassador in Islamabad, sought Pakistan's co-operation. General Pervez Musharraf has given a public assurance of his 'unstinted co-operation' against international terrorism. Bush told the media on September 13 that the US 'has given Pakistan a chance to co-operate,' thereby indicating some scepticism in his mind whether the military junta would do so and, if so, to what extent.

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