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| October 5, 2005 | Wednesday | Sha’aban 30, 1426 |
Flexibility on Kashmir emboldened India: PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Secretary- General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra said on Tuesday that the second round of talks between the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India had again ended without any significant development on the Kashmir issue.
In a statement issued here, Mr Jhagra said the pre- notification of ballistic missile tests and communication link between Pakistan Maritime Security Agency and Indian Coast Guard were non-issues that could not contribute towards ensuring an atmosphere of peace as long as India continued to avoid any tangible progress on the settlement of Kashmir dispute.
Pointing a finger at the military regime, the PML secretary- general said that the flexibility shown by General Pervez Musharraf on Kashmir issue had emboldened India to put it on the back burner. It had also encouraged New Delhi to repeat veiled threats of a conflagration on the pretext of its false accusation on infiltration, he observed.
Responding to the Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran’s remarks that a major attack in the valley could derail the peace process, he indicated that India had malicious designs against Pakistan. He said Pakistan needed to be alert because in the present days wars could be easily waged by an arrogant leadership on the base of fabricated, baseless and imaginary accusations against the peaceful countries.
“The delay in composite dialogue for another three months was an Indian tactic. Pakistan must insist on an earliest possible solution to the issue of Kashmir where innocent Kashmiris were the continuous target of increasing Indian atrocities,” he said.
CHARGE-SHEET: The party’s Information Secretary Siddiqul Farooque has expressed concern over what he termed the “inability of the Election Commission (EC) to check violation of the election code of conduct in the local government polls.
Speaking at a news conference here, Mr Farooque said despite reports of pre-poll rigging in the third phase of the elections, the EC had so far failed to take action.
He claimed that the acting chief election commissioner, perhaps being a judge of the apex court could not get enough time for the EC office. Moreover, his appointment was of temporary nature and it seemed that the EC staff often disregarded his directives, he added.
He said the candidates were spending millions on their election campaigns and many government officials were involved in the worst kind of rigging in blatant violation of the constitution, law and electoral codes of conduct, for which they deserved to be punished according to the law.
The most important point to be noted in this regard, he said, was that members of government, federal cabinet and the ruling party and observers from the European Union and the Commonwealth had confirmed open rigging during the first two phases.
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