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âFew Terrorists Out to Sabotage Peace Processâ
The chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front has called for a concerted effort by both India and Pakistan to wipe out the handful of extremists who he says want to sabotage the peace process between the two countries. In an exclusive interview with Arab News, given in the Pakistani capital last Wednesday, Yasin Malik said that while only a few terrorists had actually disturbed the peace of people in India they were still âdetermined to sabotage the peace process between India and Pakistanâ.In a conciliatory mood, the chairman of the JKLF who claims to have been tortured by Indian security forces last year, said that a âhandful of terroristsâ could not be allowed to undermine the process when both India and Pakistan had joined hands to serve humanity. Both countries, he said, were âgenuinely engagedâ in dealing with the aftermath of the Oct. 8 earthquake which had left tens of thousands dead, many hundreds of thousands injured and missing and several million homeless. Malik said the governments of Pakistan and India had to act with absolute determination against the terrorists. The killing of 60 people by a small group of them in New Delhi last week had created an atmosphere of mistrust, he said. Just when the region needs the two governments to work together for humanityâs sake, just when the two are making every effort to defuse the situation, opening up border crossings and initiating confidence-building measures, people might be led into thinking that there is more than a few elements out to sabotage the process. âSuddenly we find a few individuals bombing the Indian capital. Obviously this attempt will sow doubts in the minds of many millions in India and Pakistan. People will ask what is going on when Pakistan and India are improving their bilateral relations and helping each other in the aftermath of earthquake.â Now was the time for Pakistan and India to track down these militants. Both Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to eradicate them. âWe have seen so much bloodshed; now is the time to serve humanity. The killing of innocent people must stop.â Posted by: Fred 2005-11-04 |
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