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BJP wants Govt to get tough against ak misadventures - The Observer
Observer Political Bureau
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May 20, 1998
Title: BJP wants Govt to get tough against ak misadventures
Author: Observer Political Bureau
Publication: The Observer
Date: May 20, 1998
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday trained its guns on
Pakistan and urged the Government to take a tough stand against
it by sending a message across that India will not take "anymore
misadventures by Pakistan lying low."
Nothing with concern increasing terrorist activities in Jammu,
Rajouri, Doda and Poonch, the BJP asked the Centre and Jammu and
Kashmir to evolve a three-pronged joint action plan to check ISI
activities in the boder state.
Senior BJP leader Krishanlal Sharma suggested that the joint
action plan to include a comprehensive combing operations,
effective fencing of the border and sufficient deployment of
armed forces m Jammu and Kashmir to deal effectively with the
menance of militancy sponsored by Pakistan.
If went unchecked, the situation will become so worse that more
people may be forced to migrate from even Jammu, Rajouri, Doda
and Poonch regions. Sharma said adding that Pakistan was now even
resorting to unprovoked firing in several areas along the border.
It could be 's reaction, out of frustration, against the nuclear
tests conducted by India, he said.
Pakistan must be made to realise that the Government Of India
will not take anything lying low, Sharma said adding "time has
come when the Government should take a tough stand to foil
Pakistan's interference in Jammu and Kashmir."
The Government's action should be such that Pakistan should think
ten times before taking up any more misadventures, the BJP leader
said. However, on Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK), the BJP leader said
the matter should be resolved through bilateral negotiations.
The BJP's advocacy of a tough stand against Pakistan came close
on the heels of an in-depth review of the situation in J&K at a
high level meeting which was attended by Union Home Minister L K
Advani, Defence Minister George Fernandes, state Chief Minister
Farooq Abdullah, the Chief of Army Staff and senior officers of
the Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Home Affairs.
Both Advani and Abdullah had hinted at stringent measures if
there was no let up in terrorist activities in the state. Hoping
that the Government would respond positively to the party's
suggestion, Sharma said there was the question of Kashmiri
migrants was worrisome. He said there was no question of forcing
the migrants to back. The Government should create conditions
conducive for them to return to the valley.
It said it is amusing that China accuses India of initiating the
1962 war between the two countries, when the entire world knows
that it was the other way round. China's unprovoked aggression of
1962 had shocked Jawaharlal Nehru.
istory stands testimony that India had never launched an
aggression against anyone." Sharma said adding that the Chinese
were so rattled by India's N-tests that they am now falsifying
history to paint India the as the aggressor. China he said, seems
to have realised that it can no longer threaten India. The
strong, and false, statements emanating from Beijing are perhaps
due to its frustration, Sharma said.
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