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The BJP virtually accused Mr. Qazi of "overstaying" and said New Delhi's move was a clear message to Islamabad that the Government viewed the situation seriously. The party general secretary, Pyarelal Khandelwal, said it was hoped that the international community would realise the seriousness of India's concerns. The senior BJP leader, J.P. Mathur, sharply criticised Mr. Qazi. He said that Mr. Qazi continued to stay in India ``unashamedly'' even after India recalled its High Commissioner in Islamabad. He said that while it was a known fact that the embassy of every country had a position among its staff for an intelligence personnel, "yet this sort of job is never done through the Ambassador or High Commissioner'', Mr. Mathur said. The Congress too welcomed the diplomatic offensive of the Vajpayee Government and said the step was long overdue since New Delhi had recalled its envoy five months ago. The party spokesman, S. Jaipal Reddy, said that instead of responding to the recall of the Indian envoy, Islamabad continued to pursue its own activities. His party supported the latest move on the diplomatic front. The CPI(M) politburo, however, struck a somewhat different note. Its member, S. Ramachandran Pillai, said the party was unable to understand the "rationale" behind the move. He told The Hindu that even though the Government had assured in Parliament that it would consult the political parties before taking further steps, it had gone ahead with today's decision without explaining anything. The Rashtriya Janata Dal too criticised the move for different reasons and called it an ``eyewash''. Such symbolic protests would not be enough. The RJD vice-president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, told correspondents that the menace of cross-border terrorism had to be dealt with firmly and not by taking such diplomatic steps. The Government had failed to isolate Pakistan internationally. The CPI-ML general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya, felt that there was no substitute for a direct, effective diplomatic engagement and asked the Vajpayee Government to "stop the current policy of short-sighted adventurism and instead engage the Musharraf administration in a serious bilateral dialogue''.
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