Centre should explore other options if Pak continues to violate ceasefire: Omar SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Amid no signs of cooling of tension on the Indo-Pak border, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the Centre will have to look at other options if Pakistan continues to violate ceasefire. Obviously this cannot be a one sided affair. It cannot be a situation where we are the receiving end and no response is given, he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. Centre should explore other options if Pakistan continues to violate ceasefire along LoC, he said. Referring to the New York meeting between Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Omar said Manmohan Singh was very forthright in putting across Indias concerns. A mechanism had been worked out whereby the DGMOs of both countries would meet to discuss cooling of the LoC and IB (international Border). That has not happened so far. I believe that is an option that needs to be exercised, failing which obviously, Government of India will have to look at responding in kind, he said. A total of 136 ceasefire violations have been reported in 2013, the highest in the past 8 years. Omar also lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seeking US intervention for resolution of Kashmir issue. The Pakistani Prime Minister is guilty of playing to his home audience. Clearly, he knows from experience that India will not accept any sort of foreign intervention in the matter of Jammu and Kashmir. Make it clear that no sort of mediation or any sort of role for a third party exists (in Kashmir). It is something that both the countries have agreed. Please remember one of the major aspects of Tashkent agreement decades ago was exactly this: for the return of territories that India had won in that war, Pakistan will give up its claim for any third party mediation on the issue of Kashmir. For some reason, Pakistan wants to forget those aspects of these agreements that do not suit it, he said.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:45:55 +0000
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