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| ‘Stopping cross border terrorism imperative for peace’ | | | Jammu | Feb 24
‘All the contentious issues should be kept in abeyance including Kashmir in the on going peace process between India and Pakistan and top priority should be given in tackling the menace of cross border terrorism’, said senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Prof Gupta here today.
Interacting with party activists, Prof. Gupta said that terrorism is posing a great danger to mankind and thus, threatening peace and human values. But much of terrorism, especially in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, is having its roots and breeding ground in Pakistan and Pak-held areas of this State, he added and ‘pointed out that originally it was plan to launch a low cost war against India in Kashmir over 17 years ago’.
He regretted that the ‘infrastructure of militancy is still intact and perpetrators of violence are having shelter across the line of control although about five years back the Pakistan President General Musharraf had publicly assured that no soil under control of Pakistan would be allowed for cross border terror.’
About the bitterness and hostilities between India and Pakistan, Prof Gupta asserted that for this ‘the root cause was communal division coupled with the communal approach adopted by vested interest’. The situation demanded that these diseases should be tackled by having confidence building measures (CBMs). ‘If the walls of hatred are demolished, all the problems could be settled gradually as the people of two sides are form same blood and had been living together for centuries as brothers’; he observed.
About the problems in Jammu and Kashmir, Prof. Gupta observed that these were the ‘result of ever changing antics even on basic issues under communal considerations and trying to distance this state from rest of the country under parochial thinking although they have been the biggest beneficiaries of sad situation created by Pakistan’.
Without naming anybody, the BJP leader pointed out that ‘they were amongst the framers of the Indian Constitution, which applied to all Indians’. ‘If it was good for crores of Indians, including Muslims in the rest of the country, how could it be harmful for some lakhs of people in a particular area of the valley he asked’?
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