'Such Things Should Not Be Repeated'

Pakistan had been constantly saying since 18^th Junethat Kashmir would be in the top priority of its agenda. Such news were comingto India through different news papers and electronic media but Government ofIndia did not bother about it. 

Pakistan fulfilled its objective and we could notdo anything. It was the result of the talk without any preparation. The PrimeMinister all of a sudden stopped the cease-fire in Jammu and Kashmir and sent aninvitation to the President of Pakistan for talk. Even after the invitation, nopreparation for the talk was done. 

For such political talk, some ground work atbureaucratic level should have been done but that was not done. We would like tosay that such things should not be repeated in future. 

General Musharraf did notcome here for peace. He fulfilled his objectives. He talked here to the Hurriyatleaders on our land. He wanted to internationalise the Kashmir issue and he didso. He fully utilised the media. We once again failed to utilise the media. 

Wefailed to give message to the people of our country as to who was responsiblefor the failure of talks. Both the countries were facing many problems andperhaps this talk was necessary to divert the attention of the people of boththe countries from those problems. 

The Minister is very well aware of theactivities of ISI but no such indication was given that ISI activities wouldalso be discussed during the talk. The Chief Ministers of all the States havingborder with Pakistan should have been consulted on the issue of cross-borderterrorism. 

Pakistan very cleverly termed the terrorism as freedom struggle andterrorists as freedom fighters. Even then, both the countries, particularlyIndia, have been saying that mutual understanding has been developed. 

We wouldlike to know as to how many issues were there on which understanding wasreached. Whether the issue of Indian prisoners in Pakistan jails, shelter tohard-core terrorists, mutual trade etc. were discussed and some agreementreached or not? 

The recent Doda massacre shows that the talk was a totalfailure. We also would like to know as to what happened at the end of the talkand why a joint statement could not be issued? We would appeal to the Governmentthat the talk should continue but before the talk, full preparation should bemade.