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`Pak. has no intention of stopping proxy war'
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, JAN. 3. Recent statements emanating from Pakistan show that it has no intention of stopping support to its proxy war against India being carried out in the name of `jehad', the BJP said today. The party was convinced that Pakistan ``continues to be a centrepoint of terrorism''.
In fact, the statement attributed by reports to the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, that he has ordered the ISI to cut off support to Islamic extremist groups operating from Pakistan and to restrict support to those operating from within Jammu and Kashmir establishes the ISI's complicity in terrorist attacks in the State and its intention to continue support to `jehadi' groups, the party general secretary, Maya Singh, said today.
The BJP seems no longer in the mood to buy the American argument that Pakistan was in the forefront in the global war against terrorism. The party saw its ``presumed collaboration'' with the ``coalition against terrorism'' as ``nothing but a pretence and a sham''.
With this firm conviction it is not difficult to see why the party is totally against any dialogue between the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Gen. Musharraf in Kathmandu. While leaders are vary of predicting whether a meeting will take place or not - Mr. Vajpayee himself ruled out this possibility in Lucknow today - they are convinced that if at all anything transpires it would be at the unofficial level.
There is also the view that at this juncture, a meeting between the two cannot be expected to result in anything positive, and a meeting without positive outcome would not be politically useful, especially when elections in several States are round the corner and the party cadre feel sabre-rattling would produce better electoral results.
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