ISLAMABAD: A. pro-government Pakistani daily said both Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her Indian counterpart Vishwanath Pratap Singh would have “to make an extra effort to fight the frozen postures on their own sides as well as make progress mutually.”
The paper “Pakistan Times” was commenting on New Delhi’s charge that Pakistan was involved in the disturbances in Kashmir.
Referring to Bhutto’s special envoy Abdul Sattar’s recent visit to New Delhi, the paper said “every time there has been an honest bid in the past to make a new beginning, it has been soiled almost at the source by the standing reservoir of suspicion, fear and hostility.”
“Initiatives from one side have always somehow got impaled on the doubts of the other.”
Another newspaper, “Nation” has called on the Bhutto government to state that Kashmir was a disputed issue between India and Pakistan.
The Daily said Bhutto must take the first opportunity to reiterate Pakistan’s right to demand “self-determination” for Kashmiris. By doing this she would allay misgivings that inertia has blunted her government’s reflexes on vital issues, it said.
The “Muslim” said India had of late taken the “characteristic resort” of blaming Pakistan for its domestic problems.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 26, 1990
