'Shri Parvez Musharraf Came As A Tourist'

In all-party leaders meeting we all said that cross-border terrorism shouldbe the main agenda, and Line-of-Control should be the border resolution. ThePrime Minister said, "Whenever he talked of cross-border terrorism, Musharrafraised the issue of Kashmir".

Shri Musharraf did not come with any agenda. The Prime Minister openly saidin the all-party meeting that the talks were futile. I told in that meeting thatShri Parvez Musharraf came as a tourist to India. He did not have the diplomacyto talk to the tallest Prime Minister of a great democratic country.

There was a report of a Group of four Ministers on reforming the nationalsecurity system. The Standing Committee on Home Affairs is going to deliberateon this report. Cross-border terrorism was the main issue that was to be raisedin that Summit meeting. After the Summit and after the departure of Shri PervezMusharraf the pilgrims to Amarnath were killed.

A week before he was to come to India, General Musharraf proclaimed himselfas the President of Pakistan to gain at protocol. He was not accountable to anyParliament. We should not have negotiated with him.

The Indian Press has covered all that General Musharraf said. One of them hassaid that General Musharraf was better than an elected Government. All hisspeeches and all his interviews were published by Indian Press and gaveinternational recognition to him. This is not the expected form of freedom ofPress.

Kashmir problem is a perennial problem. The Prime Minister should take atough decision, a hard line decision, to deal with Pakistan. We cannot believePervez Musharraf. But, in our democratic system the diplomatic way ofapproaching another country is by way of dialogue. We cannot end the dialogue.We have to negotiate. We have to talk to Pakistan. We should go on talking tothem. They do not have any inclination to solve this problem.

As far as the Prisoners Of War are concerned, the General said that he wouldpersonally look into it. But, after reaching Islamabad, Pervez Musharraf saidthat there were no Prisoners Of War in Pakistan. General Musharraf was ourguest. We were his host. But we cannot get that type of hospitality in thatcountry. We are a great people. Our country is great. We have traditions.General Parvez has no traditions. He has held only the military traditions.Whatever he said was negative.

We the Members of Parliament along with the Government, should take a toughstand though not to the extent of declaring a war. We have to interfere in theircountry to get somebody elected as President democratically. We have toinfiltrate. The ISI agents are printing and circulating notes in India. GeneralMusharraf should have been received by our Generals here and not by Shri K.R.Narayanan, the great President of India.

In one of the papers, it was reported that he must be honoured with NobelPeace Prize. The Military General does not know about non-aggression; he doesnot know about mutual benefit; he does not know about peaceful co-existence hedoes not know about Panchsheel. After coming here, he has created anotherproblem.

I would appeal to the Prime Minister to be more cautious in his internationalapproaches. In all international matters, he might convene all-party meetings,not only NDA meetings. I want you to win over General Musharraf. Whatever helpand support you want, we will extend and we are all with you.

We are all with the Prime Minister and we are all with the Government ofIndia.
We want the Indian land to be intact. We will not part with even an inch of ourland to Pakistan or any other country for that matter. We want the Government ofIndia to curb the cross-border terrorism and to curb the militancy. TheGovernment should protect the people of India and we are with the Government.