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| Bomb terrorist camps in Pakistani Kashmir, sez Swamy |
| 2006-06-08 |
| Janata Party national president Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday demanded abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bombing of terrorist training camps across the border. On a mission to revive the Kashmir unit of his party, Dr. Swamy said Kashmir was a settled issue. The Janata Party considers the whole of the State, including PoK and those parts in possession of the Chinese, as an integral and inalienable part of India, a consequence of the instrument of accession signed by the Maharaja (Hari Singh), he said. He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should have articulated India's stand to the people during the second roundtable conference to resolve the Kashmir issue. "We need to have a zero tolerance policy as far as terrorism is concerned," he said, adding that the ongoing peace process be rejected as it would yield nothing. He said: "Even General Musharraf is under the direct threat of terrorists and we should help him to eliminate them." He accused militants of ethnic cleansing and said "minorities [Kashmiri Pandits] were herded out of Kashmir." "Kashmir does not become Islamist just because Muslims are in majority. The State has a glorious Hindu and Buddhist past," he said. |
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