India, Sept. 30 -- Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed that while India was ready for retaliation against Pakistan after 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, it decided not to after pressure from global community. UPA government, led by Congress, was in power when Mumbai witnessed one of the worst terror attacks, carried out by Pak-based Laskhar-e-Toiba terror outfit.

"Two or three days after I took over, Condoleeza Rice came to meet me and the Prime Minister to say 'please don't react'. I said this is a decision which the government will take. But an act of retribution did cross my mind," he said in an interview

Chidambaram said that Manmohan Singh, the then prime minister, discussed retaliation even when the 26/11 Mumbai attacks were ...