NEW DELHI: The right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party Friday argued strongly for the government to end all dialogue with Pakistan in the wake of the Guru resolution and the suicide attack earlier this week on a paramilitary camp in Srinagar.
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde informed parliament yesterday that the attackers were most likely Pakistani. Islamabad has denounced that theory.
“If India can be kicked around in this manner internationally, there is something seriously wrong with how we are managing our affairs,” Jaitley said, referring to the tension with Pakistan and Italy’s refusal to send back two marines to face murder charges for shooting two Kerala fishermen.
In its resolution last night, the Pakistani parliament criticized India’s decision to hang Guru, 43, for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament in which 13 people were killed. Guru was executed and buried in a top-secret operation at Delhi’s Tihar Jail, triggering large protests in his home state of Kashmir.
In January, tension between New Delhi and Islamabad peaked over a series of killings on the LoC, the worst since a ceasefire agreement a decade ago.
India said Pakistani troops had crossed the Line of Control near Jammu and attacked the soldiers. Pakistan denied the charges.
(NDTV)
