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NDA not serious about dialogue with Pakistan: Azad
Shimla, June 12: Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today charged the NDA government with not being serious about beginning a dialogue with Pakistan and not doing `proper homework on it`.
Shimla, June 12: Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today charged the NDA government with not being serious about beginning a dialogue with Pakistan and not doing "proper homework on it".
"NDA government is not very serious about beginning a
dialogue with Pakistan. It never did any home work before
holding talks with Pakistan and this was evident twice, first
at Lahore and then at Agra," Azad, an AICC member, told
reporters here.
Replying to a question, Azad, who is also the president of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, said the Congress was not opposed to dialogue with Pakistan, but Government of India should prepare itself fully and "do its homework."
On the issue of sending peacekeeping troops to Iraq, Azad said the Centre should send troops only at the request of the United Nations and not at the behest of the United States.
A peacekeeping role for Indian troops should be under UN auspices only. Besides, reconstruction of Iraq should also be under UN aegis, Azad said.
Azad said the US-led attack on Iraq was aimed at controlling oil resources and not as claimed by the Bush administration that it was intended to destroy chemical weapons. "This was only a ploy,” he said.
Bureau Report
Replying to a question, Azad, who is also the president of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, said the Congress was not opposed to dialogue with Pakistan, but Government of India should prepare itself fully and "do its homework."
On the issue of sending peacekeeping troops to Iraq, Azad said the Centre should send troops only at the request of the United Nations and not at the behest of the United States.
A peacekeeping role for Indian troops should be under UN auspices only. Besides, reconstruction of Iraq should also be under UN aegis, Azad said.
Azad said the US-led attack on Iraq was aimed at controlling oil resources and not as claimed by the Bush administration that it was intended to destroy chemical weapons. "This was only a ploy,” he said.
Bureau Report