NEW DELHLI: For the first time, a government has virtually supported the Kashmir and Sikh liberation movements. Afghan President Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani told media persons at Rawalpindi on May 23 that support for liberation movements did not amount to an act of terrorism.
He was referring to the Kashmir people’s movement for liberation and by implication, also the Sikhs movement. “Such movements are the right of the people everywhere for self-determination. Supporting liberation movements does not mean supporting terrorism. This is a very noble and humanitarian act,” he said, The Afghan President was replying to a question that the U.S. government was threatening (6 declare Pakistan a terrorist state after the U.S. government supported the Afghan struggle for liberation, The remarks of the Afghan President have come to the Indian authorities as a shock because for the first time the Kashmir and Punjab liberation movements had obtained the backing of a government. Even Pakistan was reluctant Lo put the issue in such a clear manner.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 28, 1993
