New Delhi, May 9
Noting that the statement of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament yesterday regarding the initiatives on the Indo-Pakistan front had helped in dispelling some “suspicions” and “fears”, the RSS today asserted that New Delhi needed to give up signs of war-weariness and reaffirm its position, taken unanimously in Parliament in 1994 on Kashmir.

Backing the government in its resolve that it was highly imprudent to think of any political dialogue until Pakistan stopped sponsoring and supporting cross-border terrorism completely and dismantled the ISI-sponsored terror network in India and training camps in PoK and Pakistan, the Sangh Parivar outfit wanted New Delhi to make it emphatically clear that Indo-Pakistan issues were purely bilateral and there was no scope for third-party intervention at all.

“The past few weeks witnessed several fresh initiatives on the Indo-Pakistan front. There were speculations about a no-war pact, freezing of nuclear capabilities and that the LoC should be recognised as the international border. The statement of the Prime Minister yesterday in Parliament has helped in dispelling most of them and reassured the nation that the government will move cautiously on this front,” RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav told newspersons here.

Strongly opposing any move to accept the LoC as the international border, he said “Over the past several centuries, our borders have shrunk up to Gilgit. The very idea of accepting the LoC as the international border means further shrinking of our borders up to Kargil.”

“India needs to give up signs of war-weariness and reaffirm its position, taken unanimously in Parliament in 1994, that the only outstanding issue between India and Pakistan is the status of, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which should return to India,” the RSS spokesperson asserted.

Pointing to the visits of several foreign dignitaries to New Delhi and Islamabad, Mr Madhav said “We have to keep in mind that they are indirectly trying to give an impression to the world that they are involved in the efforts to resolve the Indo-Pakistan dispute.”

“These dignitaries have to be told that the real threat from Pakistan is to the entire Asia and beyond because of its clandestine links with North Korea and its exchange of missiles and weapons with that country,” he said.

The RSS also termed the Pakistani response to India’s peace initiatives as ‘’insincere, non-serious and inadequate.’’

Mr Madhav pointed out that while Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zaffarullah Khan Jamali was calling for the restoration of air link between the countries, he was silent about permitting Indian overflights into Pakistani airspace.