Congress on Thursday slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif for his Kashmir shouting and glorifying terrorist
Burhan Wani at the UN. It said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj should
give a strong and a befitting reply when she addresses the world body on Monday.
The main opposition party said the government should put up a
strong and factual case for India in front of the International community and
wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
consult all political parties before deciding on "concrete and tangible
steps" in the wake of the Pakistani onslaught.
"Conspiratorial omission to Uri
Attack in Sharif’s speech is a public admission of culpability
by Pakistan, of its direct involvement in this act of cowardice. There was
nothing new in his address, except glorification of terrorists and extremism
which Pakistan has adopted as 'state policy'," Congress' chief spokesman
Randeep Singh Surjewala said here.
In "glorifying" a terrorist like Burhan Wani, a
Hizbul Mujahideen commander who was killed in an encounter with security forces
on July 8, Sharif only reiterated where his and his country's sympathies and
support lies, he added.
"The international community must now understand fully
that it is not only terrorists in Kashmir that Pakistan supports but its state
policy is to provide an umbrella support and sustenance to all those who wreck
havoc across the world, including in France, Bangladesh, USA, Britain and
Belgium......," he added.
"We are confident that an already wary international
community has seen through Pakistan's vile designs", he said.
Surjewala ridiculed Sharif's claim of an 'intifada'
(uprising) in the Kashmir valley and said his "conspiratorial
omission" to Uri Attack is a public admission of guilt.
"In citing 'intifada' in Kashmir, Nawaz Sharif looks like that emperor who plays flute while his entire country, right from Khyber to Balochistan to Sindh is up in a violent intifada against his nation state," the Congress leader said.
"In citing 'intifada' in Kashmir, Nawaz Sharif looks like that emperor who plays flute while his entire country, right from Khyber to Balochistan to Sindh is up in a violent intifada against his nation state," the Congress leader said.
Describing Pakistan as a 'renegade state' that has emerged as
the 'central processing unit' (CPU) of global terror, he said in what has now
become habitual; Sharif again invoked Kashmir at a multilateral forum, despite
Pakistan being a signatory to the Shimla Accord.
Surjewala said the Modi government has "followed"
the Congress-UPA's policy in raising the issue of human rights violations in
Balochistan and now it is imperative for India to sensitize the International
Community and the UN with this issue.
"We
urge upon the Prime Minister and the government to consult all political
parties in taking a concrete and tangible step on this," he added.
While expecting Swaraj to give a befitting reply to Sharif's
speech at the UN General Assembly, Surjewala
took a jibe, saying this is imperative as the External Affairs Minister was not
present in nearly all the initial meetings held to assess the situation and
review security chaired either by Prime Minister or other Ministers.
