New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Wednesday briefed the Congress MPs about various aspects of the Indo-Pak joint statement issued at Sharm-el Sheikh, hours ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s intervention on the issue in Parliament.
Menon briefed a group of party MPs from both the Houses
on the technical details of the statement so that they were
aware of all the details of the communique before the
discussion on the issue, sources said here.
The Indo-Pak joint statement, issued after the meeting
between Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza
Gilani, came under attack from all sides for delinking of
terror from the composite dialogue process and the reference
to Balochistan.
Singh`s intervention has assumed significance in view of
the fact that the Congress has so far failed to openly come
out in support of him on the issue.
Bureau Report
