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| India-Pakistan |
| UK sees ISI link to 'militants' |
| 2002-06-13 |
| British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday his government now accepted that "armed militants" fighting Indian forces in occupied Kashmir had links with Pakistan's ISI. Straw told British MPs that in the past decade "the character of the (Kashmir) conflict" had changed with "the incursion of armed militants" from Azad Kashmir into occupied Kashmir. "India has long charged that such terrorism has had the covert support of successive Pakistani governments, and in particular the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID), the main intelligence agency in Pakistan. "Her majesty's government accepts that there is a clear link between ISID and these groups," Straw added. NEWS FLASH: "In a dramatic break with the previous official British position, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today admitted that the world may be somewhat spherical in shape, and perhaps even round. Further, the direction the sun comes up has been tentatively identified as east. Vote Labour. We tell it like we think you want it should be." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I haven't seen anything from Jack Straw saying that India refuses to hold an honest plebiscite throughout Kashmir, or that the government is being run mostly by the Hindu version of the Taliban. Of course the idea that what happens to Kashmir has nothing to do with us Brits will never ever be mentioned. Oh well, let's be happy with that smidgen of truth from Mr Straw. |
| Posted by: Emmanuel Goldstein 2002-06-14 04:22:30 |