ISLAMABAD: The chief of the Awami National Party, Khan Abdulwali Khan, has accused the Bhutto Government of amplifying the Kashmir issue to divert the peoples’ attention from pressing domestic issues. Khan told an Id Congregation in Peshawar that the Present government was playing the Kashmir card in a bid to shake off the mounting despair and anger among the people for its failure in removing unemployment, poverty and ensuring better medical, housing and drinking water facilities He said “curfew in Kashmir” had become the lead item in almost all the news bulletins in Pakistan radio and television.
The ANP chief said both Pakistan and the U S governments had used the leaders of the Afghan resistance for their own end.
Indirectly referring to Pakistan giving support to the separatists in the valley, he said the developments there were meant to divert the attention of the world from the war crimes it had committed in Afghanistan over the last ten years in the name of Islam.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 13, 1990
