Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 19, 2008
http://www.dailypioneer.com/135490/ATS-revelations-will-have-a-bearing-on-Indo-Pak-talks-BJP.html
Terming the ATS investigations "juvenile",
the BJP on Wednesday claimed that the "selective revelations" in
the probe would encourage pro-jehadi forces in Pakistan and may influence
the ongoing Indo-Pak talks.
"Earlier the Congress regime was soft
on terror, now they have turned juvenile. The juvenile investigations would
encourage jehadi elements in Pakistan and would have an effect on the talks
between the two countries which is due in the last week of this month,"
party spokesperson Ravi Shanker Prasad told reporters here.
The whole move to malign the forces by claiming
that the RDX for the Samjhauta blast was provided by an army personnel and
then retracting the statement the next day is very demoralising at a time
when the ISI has been propagating the theory that the Indian Army supports
terror in Jammu and Kashmir, he added.
"There is a risk of Pakistan seeking
a review of all the terrorist attacks in which India had alleged a Pakistani
hand. In the Samjhauta blasts case, we had even provided to Pakistan a photograph
of a Pakistani national who was involved," Prasad said.
The moral of the Indian Army needs to be protected
at all costs, he added.
"The ATS theory would give Pakistan an
opportunity to prove that India is involved in sponsoring anti-Pak campaign
on terror," Prasad said.
It was in fact, Congress leader Digvijay Singh
who used the term Hindu-terror in the Gujarat polls. Ever since he has been
using the term. "Our stand is that a terrorist has no religion,"
Prasad said.
