'Fight Out Jehadis And Finish Them'

Agra summit was a very important Summit in which Indian as well as Pakistanipeople were interested. Rather, the whole world was interested. In India all theOpposition Parties fully supported the Government to go for talks because webelieve that ultimately dialogue is the answer to the disputes between the twocountries. For that India did make some preparations, but unfortunately, therewas no response from the leaders of Pakistan and all our efforts went waste.

The Government has always been saying that there will be no dialogue withPakistan unless cross border terrorism is stopped. What happened then thatimmediately, there was a U-turn in the foreign policy and you went for talks?When you want to change your policy, you may be aware that it has to be based ona national consensus. You should have consulted all of us so that a nationalconsensus could have built on this issue.

Apart from that, America is taking a lot of interest in the negotiations.They are asking India and Pakistan about it. They must have consulted you. Wasthere any indication from those talks that Pakistan has changed its mind andthat they are ready to come to the table with an open mind and have a dialoguewith us?

My complaint is that you talked to the wrong person. You talked to Mr.Musharaff who usurped power in Pakistan. He was opposed by all the politicalparties there.

Our Government ignored the history also. At the time of Partition, they saidthat the Partition had taken place between Hindu India and Muslim India and thatKashmir is an unfinished agenda of Partition. They were claiming Kashmir becauseit is a Muslim-majority State and they refused to believe that the Maharaja ofKashmir had acceded to India.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf had declared sometime back that he did not agree withthe 1949 and 1972 Agreement with India. He did not appreciate even the LahoreDeclaration. They say about `two nation theory'. we say that India cannot acceptthe two nation theory. India is a secular country.

The Government is silent on the fact as to why they changed that policy andwhy they wanted to have the talks. Some people said that it was America who wasforcing the two countries to sit around a table and have talks with him. Pressin Pakistan said that their Jehadis in Kashmir forced Shri Vajpayee to come tothe table. Some press people said that Shri Vajpayee was getting very unpopular.They should say that it was all wrong.

We are not aware of what the agenda had been. But there is an agenda ofPakistan. The statement of Shri Musharraf and Shri Sattar is there continuouslytelling the Press what their agenda is. But our agenda was not known to any ofus. Gen. Musharraf have had two conferences, meeting with the press. But ourPrime Minister and the hon. Minister did not take care to call the press peopleor experts to discuss with them and give them a feeling that they are all beingconsulted.

The talks had miserably failed. It ignored the history. There was nocompulsion for you to go ahead and jump for talks while the situation inPakistan was not stable. Who were the beneficiaries of these talks. It was Gen.Musharraf. His position was not stable. You made him stable. He had gone back asa victor.

There is further increase in their activities over there. Now, the talks areagain going on. I would only like to ask whether you have again, prepared thehome task. We would like to know as to what are the situations in which you aregoing to talk. All the parties on this side are saying that you may have a talkand we have no objection but you must do the home task.

But before you go there, my advice is that you must finish, fight out Jehadisand finish them in Kashmir. When you finish them, you go to Pakistan. I assureyou that you will be respected and something may come from your talks.