ISLAMABAD: The Opposition has reacted very sharply to the reverses sustained by the Government to move the resolution on Kashmir in the United Nations International Security Committee, and demanded immediate resignation of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, report agencies.
Expressing regrets over the Government’s failure to muster enough support in favor of moving the resolution, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that it was the, “greatest humiliation” ever faced by Pakistan and it had brought discredit to the nation.
Talking to newspersons, a former federal minister Nisar Ali, a right hand man of Sharif said, “This is nothing short of humiliation. It is a foreign policy disaster which has no parallel in history. The least the Prime Minister can do is to resign and also ask her Foreign Minister to quit.”
‘According to reports, Ms. Bhutto before her departure from Paris to Islamabad had asked her Foreign Minister to convey to the Pakistan delegation not to push for the vote on the resolution. Perhaps visualizing their set back, the Government had insisted on Sharif leading the Pakistan delegation to take up the Kashmir issue, to put him in an embarrassing position.
The Opposition demanded that the Government should convene a joint session of Parliament to discuss the issue.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 18, 1994
