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Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: December 18, 2002
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/dec/18bjp.htm
The BJP on Thursday sought withdrawal
of the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan as that country was
not extending the same benefit to India.
Even the US' policy towards Pakistan
is not helping check terrorism and that American ambassador Robert Blackwill's
remarks condemning the terrorist attack on Parliament appeared to be mere
lip service, party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters in Delhi.
"The US policy towards Pakistan
is not enough to make Islamabad stop aiding and abetting terrorist activities
in this country. Pakistan has now become a state backing terrorism and
this is more so since the release of Masood Azhar, who heads the terrorist
organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed," he said.
Malhotra demanded that the government
take a tough stand against Bangladesh, where, he alleged, a large number
of terrorist camps had sprung up and minorities were being attacked.
