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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
The Pakistan Foreign Minister, Abdul Sattar, chose to write identical letters to the Secretary-General of the U.N. and the President of the Security Council drawing their attention ``to the explosive situation resulting from the massive Indian deployment''. He alleged that India had embarked on coercive diplomacy aimed at pressuring Pakistan to abandon its principled position on Kashmir and maintained that the BJP Government also wishes to deflect international attention from the massacre of the minority Muslims in Gujarat as well as other domestic failings. Mr. Sattar said ``we are ready to cooperate with any effort or good offices by the U.N. or the international community for reducing tension, preserving peace and promoting dialogue between the two countries''. The Minister drew attention to Article 33 of the U.N. Charter that provides for resort to peaceful means for the resolution of differences and the maintenance of international peace and security through negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, enquiry, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies, or other peaceful means. He said that for the past five months, dangerous tensions had been whipped up in South Asia. ``India has moved forward and deployed nearly one million troops in battle position along the International Border with Pakistan, the working boundary and the Line of Control in Kashmir.'' Mr. Sattar said that despite the hundreds of thousands of troops it had stationed and the sophisticated devices it had deployed along the LoC, India accuses Pakistan of infiltration across the LoC. Mr. Sattar said the Indian leadership `routinely' blamed Pakistan for every violent incident inside India and in Kashmir. He said some BJP leaders had been blaming Pakistan even for the carnage in Gujarat, though the Indian political Opposition as well as local and international human rights groups placed the responsibility on Hindu fanatics belonging to organisations such as the RSS. He said the same attitude had been adopted by the Indian Government on incidents of violence in Kashmir. ``Whether it was the Chitisingpura incident in March 2000 or the Amarnath Yatra killings later in the year, the Indian authorities alleged Pakistani involvement. Such false accusations malign the Kashmiri freedom struggle and are part of a propaganda strategy to perpetuate Indian occupation of the State.''
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