The Hindu : Don't send troops under U.S. command: Cong.

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Don't send troops under U.S. command: Cong.

By Our Staff Reporter

Shimla June 12. The Congress said here today that India should not send its troops to Iraq under U.S. command.

The senior Congress leader and Congress Working Committee member, Ghulam Nabi Azad, told reporters here that U.S. tactics were thoroughly exposed during its attack on Iraq.

"The U.S. had then conveniently forgotten the good offices of the United Nations.

``The U.S. defied the U.N. and fooled the world in the name of freeing the world from the weapons of mass destruction, though it could find neither them nor Saddam Hussein,'' he said.

Mr. Azad welcomed the continuation of a dialogue with Pakistan. The Congress was for an amicable dialogue and not for war but the Government should do the required homework before initiating further steps.

The Centre had sent an interlocutor to Kashmir but the National Security Adviser was making statements like "political solutions are a waste of time, whether in Kashmir or in Palestine."

"How can a party, which cannot solve its own leadership problem, solve the Kashmir problem?'' Mr. Azad wondered.

He said N.N. Vohra was the fourth envoy in a series and no headway had been made so far. He was only conducting introductory meetings and was acclimatising himself with the environment.

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