MUZAFFARABAD, June 25: Taking part in the budget debate in the AJK Legislative Assembly on Friday, a legislator belonging to the opposition People's Party said that any decision on Kashmir taken 'under pressure' would be unacceptable to the Kashmiris.

Ms Gulzar Fatima pointed out that India had strengthened its defence during the ceasefire and had so far completed 86 per cent of the fencing across the Line of Control in Kashmir.

"If India is sincere in resolving the dispute then why there is such a huge spending on its part on the fencing," she asked. The LoC fence was another Berlin Wall and the Kashmiris would not allow any such thing that further distanced them from each other, she said.

The young lawmaker was of the view that new challenges had emerged (for Pakistan and the Kashmiris) with the formation of the Congress government in India.

Accusing the 'military leadership' of worsening the situation, she said history testified that military dictators had always subjected the country to 'trials and tribulations.'

"In the present situation, Benazir Bhutto is the only visionary personality who can steer the country out of crisis," she said.

She also said that blaming Nawaz Sharif for the Kargil fiasco was unjustified and this had also been made clear by General Anthony Zinni.

Coming to the budget, she said it was jugglery of words with hollow claims of development. "We need no tall claims, but solid planning for a real development of this area and also to overcome the menace of unemployment."

She also criticized the government's decision to drop the medical college project and said that the project was of national importance and should not be shelved due to strikes and demonstrations.

Ms Fatima called for relaxation for residents of the Neelum Valley in recovery of cooperative department's loans.

Earlier, Sardar Akhtar Rabbani, also of the opposition, said that although some basic issues had been ignored in the budget, on the whole it was 'balanced and acceptable'.

He appreciated increase in the allocation for communications and local government but pointed out that both the departments were understaffed because of which speedy progress and standard of work could not be maintained.

Ruling party's Raja Yasin praised the budget. He said that differences between two major political parties in AJK and in the All Parties Hurriyat Conference were harming the identity of the Kashmiris at the international level.

Forests Minister Mufti Mansoor and Food Minister Raja Abdul Qayyum Khan also spoke on the budget.