BJP says Musharraf’s terror remark vindicates its stand
October 7th, 2010 - 12:38 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s remarks about his country training guerrillas to fight against India was a vindication of the country’s and the party’s position.
The BJP said the government should factor in “these revelations” while formulating its policy regarding the neighbouring country.
BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said the party had always said that terrorism in India was sponsored by Pakistan and the truth was slowly slipping out.
He said that Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan military and the intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) trained terrorists and pushed them to Jammu and Kashmir.
He said the former Pakistani president also claimed that the government in the neighbouring country had turned a blind eye to all these ISI-sponsored activities.
Javadekar said the government must utilize these revelations to expose Pakistan and its “dubious role in waging a covert war” through state-sponsored terrorism directed at India.
“The Pakistan government’s oft-repeated alibi of blaming non-state actors to hide its own direct complicity also needs to be exposed at international forums,” he said.
He said Musharraf has also confessed that these efforts were made to build pressure on India to arrive at some solution of Kashmir.
“Though the present dispensation in Pakistan has rejected the statement of its former president, the cat is clearly out of the bag. The denial is a formality while the confession is the reality. It is clear now that Pakistan has used terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India,” he said.
He added that some day some high up in Pakistan will confess to having organised the 26/11 attack on India and even the initiation and funding of stone pelting protests in the Kashmir Valley to influence public opinion and put pressure on the government.
“The BJP demands that the government should factor in these revelations by Musharraf while formulating its Pakistan policy,” he said.
He said the central government must take serious note of reports submitted by different security agencies about involvement of Pakistan in fomenting and instigating recent disturbances in Kashmir.
“This has become imperative in the backdrop of Musharraf’s confessions,” the BJP spokesman said.
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