Jaswant takes exception to Centre 'outsourcing' J-K policy

New Delhi, May 8 (UNI) Taking a strong exception to the tendency to 'outsource' the country's foreign policy keeping Parliament and the opposition in dark, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh today urged the Centre to honour the unanimous resolution of Parliament on Jammu and Kashmir.

Raising the issue after seven notices in the House, Mr Singh, himself a former Foreign Minister in the previous NDA Government, regretted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was ready to discuss the issue with everyone else but Parliament and the opposition about the Jammu and Kashmir issue. The Prime Minister in his speeches, refereed about the state of 'Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir' and talked about 'soft borders and making borders irrelevant', he said.

''He has set up number of Committees to look into the status of Jammu and Kashmir. He has many advisors but they should be aware that Parliament passed a unanimous resolution on February 20, 1994 proclaiming J-K as integral part of India and any attempt to separate it will be resisted by all necessary means and Pakistan must vacate the portions of Kashmir occupied when P V Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.'' The Prime Minister's dreams about breakfast at Amritsar, lunch at Lahore and dinner at Kabul were not feasibile in view of the continued support to terrorism by Pakistan.

Mr Singh said the Central and State Governments owed a lots of explanation as to how they had permitted Hurriyat leader Ali Shah Geelani to address the meeting at Srinagar Airport on March 22 especially when they were aware of his programmes. In this meeting, pro-Lashkar slogans and anti-India slogans were raised, he said.

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