New Delhi, June 30: BJP today hit out at Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf for asking India to show "flexibility" on Kashmir as it did on Tibet saying "it is a vain attempt to fool the international community by drawing a non-existent parallel." "There is no question of India showing any flexibility either in our well-known stand on Jammu and Kashmir or in our determined fight against cross-border terrorism,” BJP spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters here.
"As far as India is concerned", he said "the only question is to get back the part of Jammu and Kashmir that is in illegal occupation of Pakistan."
Malhotra said in regard to Tibet autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, there has been a consistent position of all Indian governments from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. This position was merely restated in the declaration signed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
"Hence, there was no 'flexibility' in India's stand on Tibet as self-servingly suggested by the Pakistani President," Malhotra said.
In contrast, Jammu and Kashmir has always been an integral part of India, which Pakistan has been trying to take by resorting to force, he said.
"When it failed to get Kashmir through three open wars it waged against India, it has been trying to grab it for the past more than a decade through a proxy war of cross-border terrorism," he said.
Bureau Report