NEW DELHI: India warned Pakistan that its talk about the unfinished business of partition in relation to Kashmir was fraught with “enforceable and calamitous” consequences.
External affairs minister IK Gujral expressed India’s disappointment with the statements of Pakistani leaders during wide ranging talks here with the visiting Philippine foreign minister Raul Manglapus.
Official sources said the Pakistan President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had recently talked about the “unfinished business of partition” in a reference to the situation in Kashmir,
Briefing Manglapus about Pakistan’s interference in Punjab and Kashmir, Gujral said “Islamabad was trying to strike a blow to India’s policy of secularism by sponsoring narcoterrorism in Border States.”
Raul Manglapus said he did not see any obstacles to the way the two regional groupings the Asian and the Saar starting a dialogue for economic cooperation.
He favoured an initiative by either side to set the ball rolling.
Replying to a question about the future of U S bases in his country, he said the Aquino government wanted to replace the executive arrangements with a treaty.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 10, 1990
