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Anti-India rhetoric

Sir, — If an anxious global community, waiting to defuse tension in the subcontinent, expected Pervez Musharraf's televised address to be the balm that would soothe frayed nerves in India, it was clearly disappointed. The liberal dose of the anti-India rhetoric in the address was for the benefit of the domestic hardliners; and his snide remarks that Indian intelligence services were responsible for the Kashmiri separatist leader, Abdul Gani Lone's assassination is ludicrous to say the least. Why should India silence the most India-friendly voice among the separatist leaders?

As Lone dared to cross swords with Pakistan-backed militants and foreign mercenaries taking advantage of the Kashmir issue, it naturally follows that the dastardly crime was committed in the interest of his adversaries.

Gen. Musharraf bringing to the notice of the global community "the atrocities committed on India's minorities" is rather strange, given the fact that Mohajirs, Sindhis, Pashtuns and Baluchis are an oppressed lot in the sectarian-strife-ridden, near-theocratic state.

Nalini Vijayaraghavan,
Thiruvananthapuram

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