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| Don't go back on promises, India to Pak |
| 2002-06-24 |
| India on Monday warned Pakistan against going back on its promise of ending cross-border terrorism and infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir. "If Pakistan is reneging, we'll have to take a closer look at what needs to be done," the ministry of external affairs said. We'd assume they're doing exactly that right this moment... The Indian reaction follows a virtual volte-face by Musharraf who, in the recently conducted interviews, denied that he had promised to permanently end infiltration. "I never said that. If I did say that, I didn't mean it. I meant... uh... something else." "The promise by Musharraf has been conveyed to India by Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld as well as Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage. There is no question of going back on the commitment," the spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs said. Go ahead. Cheese us off. Give us an excuse to dump your Islamic ass. Reacting to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's interviews to Newsweek and the BBC, the spokesperson said, "Musharraf is indulging in occasional verbal callisthenics that cannot dilute the commitment that Pakistan has made to end infiltration across the LoC." It'll be interesting to watch him talk his way out of it without dislocating his back. My guess is that he'll let the matter drop for a month and then pick it up again and see if anybody remembers. Chances are only the Indos will. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |