ISLAMABAD, April 3: National Kashmir Committee Chairman Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan has condemned the policy of the United States to support the Israeli incursion into the Palestinian territories and the genocide of the Palestinian Muslims.

Speaking at a press conference at the Parliament House here on Tuesday, he attributed Gen Musharraf’s decision to go for referendum to the politics of confrontation by the politicians.

He called upon the politicians to cooperate with the army rulers to sort out their differences and reach a consensus to set things right “instead of bashing the armed forces.”

Earlier, he presided over a committee meeting, which discussed the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance recently passed by a joint session of Indian Parliament to suppress the freedom movement and rig the October polls in the held Kashmir.

The committee received a delegation of four lawyers from the Kashmir Valley and discussed various aspects of the Kashmir issue and the situation prevailing along the Line of Control.

When asked whether he was in favour of the continued intervention by the ISI’s political cell in the political affairs of the country, he said: “We can not afford confrontation and keeping this principle in view we have compromised with them (military rulers) on formation of our government in AJK.”

He rejected the allegations that a group in the Muslim Conference led by him was destabilizing the government of Sardar Sikandar Hayat. He said he was embarking upon a visit to Saudi Arabia to attend a Rabita Alam Islami meeting.