No talks with Pak until it stops cross-border terror: BJP

New Delhi, Sep 26 (UNI) Expressing its 'serious concern' about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's efforts to resume the peace talks with Pakistan, the BJP today asked the government not to engage in any further talks with the country until it stopped all cross border terrorism as promised in the Joint Statement in 2004.

A meeting held at the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the core group of the BJP also threatened to take the issue to the people if the government disregarded the threats posed by the neighbour in stoking terror not just in Jammu and Kashmir but several parts of the country, BJP President Rajnath Singh told newspersons after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting.

He said the BJP general secretaries would be charting out the action plan for the party on September four when they are scheduled to meet here.

He declined to say anything about the claims made by Pakistan President Gen Musharraf in his book "In the Line of Fire' whereby he had claimed tactical victory for Pakistan and also contended that he and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were 'humiliated' in Agra Summit by not allowing a Joint Statement to fructify. "Mr Vajpayee himself has issued a statement and I have nothing to add," Mr Singh remarked.

The meeting was attended among others by Leader of the Opposition L K Advani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, Vijay Kumar Malhotra and BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley and Bal Apte.

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