Members of the youth wing of BJP shout slogans and burn Pakistan's national flags during a protest Chandigarh. PHOTO: REUTERS.
NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main opposition party in the Indian parliament filed a privilege motion against the Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday and demanded that talks with Pakistan be called off.
Protests against Pakistan have erupted in India in response to the ambush of five Indian troops at a military outpost in the Poonch sector, near the Line of Control even though Pakistan has denied any part in the incident at all levels.
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha claimed that India's Defence Minister AK Antony was misleading the House of Parliament and "acting as if he were the Defence Minister of Pakistan".
The minister in his statements had said that militants along with "people dressed in Pakistan Army uniform" had led the ambush while Indian Army had directly called them "soldiers of the Pakistan Army".
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had earlier called BJP leaders to his residence to talk about the ambush of Indian soldiers but the party remained unconvinced by his statements.
Earlier during the day Indian and Pakistani commanders also spoke through the hotline to discuss the situation in the aftermath of Tuesday's incident. Pakistani commanders categorically rejected accusations by their Indian counterparts and complained about the recent LoC violations from the Indian side.
The Pakistani foreign ministry said that Islamabad was committed to the ceasefire in Kashmir and wanted a strengthening of existing channels to stop “such ill founded reports” in the future.
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not good for India
@Syed A. Mateen:
I fully support your suggestion to break all diplomatic relations with India. This is what most of the Indians want. Indian Govt. is always unilaterally overenthusiastic to improve relations with Pakistan and will never take such a step. Let Pakistan take the initiative.
@Ali Khan: Which Madrassa, did you go for your schooling ? Its not that simple, come out of your cocoon and look around you, perhaps you may notice the world has changed and India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc... have move forward and are developing their nations and economies, while Pakistan has moved backwards ! Ghairat does not feed people or provide healthcare, education etc.......
India would be wrong to cancel the dialogue. The dialogue should continue regardless. However, the attack shouldn't be allowed to go unpunished. If Pakistan army claims that yhese were non state actors, then India should start hot pursuit just like the US is doing on the Af-pak border. If Pakistan army cannot control such attacks, it is India's soverign right to defend itself.
@Paktoon, Better restrict equipment in your country where blowing stuff is a common place
@thenewborn:
Here is how to tackle pak:
1.Support AFGNA by providing military equipments . 2.Support baloch nationalists in their fight overtly via diplomatic support. 3.Hit hard on LOC,tit for TAT.
Ant INDIA doing the same for almost a eleven years by financing TTP BLA etc and a dozen more terrorest grops we pakistanis know Indians more than any body we can read your minds its indias turn to safaer 1000%?
@thenewborn: Indian honeymoon is more then enough for over a dacade of indian sponsord ROW maniged terroresm in pakistan gona over in 2014 OH man we pakistanis suferd next dacade is for India to safer and bleed ,
I think there was a fancy dress competition going on border, suddenly some of these these participants got angry and started firing at indian spectacle solders, thus we lost 5 solders. -AK Antony
In order to hold talks, one really needs to know as to , who really is making their foreign policy ! Is it GHQ in Rawalpindi or GOP in Islamabad ? The smart money is on Rawalpindi, hence why waste time with discussions with Govt, when nothing is likely to be achieved ? At present there is no need to return to any talks, until and as such time as the clear parameters and implementation of policies to eradicate terrorism including any assistance first have not met.
@thenewborn: First build some equipment for the 80% of your population that relieve themselves in the open.
Pakistan should break direct diplomatic relations with Indaia.
We should ask the Indian Ambassador to leave the country and at the same time should ask our Ambassador in New Dehli to report back to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
Pakistan has been talking to India since 1947 and till date India has not given any positive response.
Under the circumtances, we should break the direct diplomatic relations with India and talk with India through a reliable third party who should also stand as gurantor for the talks and the talks should start right from the very beginning, so that there should also be an end of the talks.
here is good idea for making money. Supply Pakistani flags to Indians.And Israeli, Indians and USA flags to Pakistanis. Tell fanatics, their pictures will be shown on TV, especially when they are "IN ACTION" They do not care if the camera is operating or not.. As long they see flash
Thanks to Allah...........No reason to talk with whinnies.......Call off the talk and let INDIA fix their issues first rather than jumping on Anti-Pakistan Rant.
I am waiting for some Pro-INDIA statement comeing out of Kabul.
I hope my neighbor is able to handle this ensuing chaos.
Here is how to tackle pak:
1.Support AFGNA by providing military equipments . 2.Support baloch nationalists in their fight overtly via diplomatic support. 3.Hit hard on LOC,tit for TAT.
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Wahhhh Are these the youth of BJP or Above 40s Uncles Y0uth :P
my military equipment support was in reference to AFG-NA
I think we should push hard for military equipment support and hard hitting tactics on LOC to tackle pakistan ,otherwise political talks won't help(though can be used as in add. to the previously mentioned) .
cool down, neighbours. these are routine matters...they might be killed by smugglers.