New Delhi: At a recent meet in New Delhi, Gary Kasparov the famous Russian chess grandmaster, posed a question to the former President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that for terrorism to grow in a big way in Pakistan, it needs wherewithal-resources to buy weapons, sustain itself and then attack.

Kasparov likened it to a tree. You can not control a nasty tree by only cutting its branches or trimming it—you need to cut the source of water that sustains it, and asked why Pakistan or Musharraf had failed to stop that supply of water to the tree of terrorism.