NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday warmed Pakistan that it would take from measures to prevent the Proposed forced entry into India of thousands of supporters of the Pakistan-based Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front JKLF on February 11 amidst reports of a total strike in Pakistan and Kashmir valley on Pakistan Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif’s call.
This was conveyed to Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Sattar when he was summoned by foreign secretary J.N Ditto South Block.
A spokesman of the External Affairs Ministry told reporters later that Dixit made it clear to Sattar at their 30-minute meeting that India would take “firm measures to uphold territorial integrity and the inevitability of its borders.
Dixit also told the high commissioner that the move to cross the border was fraught with danger and “unforeseeable consequences” might result if the Pakistan government did not take all steps to prevent any untoward incident along the Line of Control.
The spokesman said preparations were on to take firm action to prevent the JKLF march in to India Dixit told him that Nawaz Sharif’s nationwide strike call to express “solidarity” with the people of Kashmir and the reported plan to cross the Line of Control in the slate on February 11 constituted “a blatant interference in our internal affairs.”
The foreign secretary emphasized during his 30-minutemecting with Sattar that Islamabad should take all steps to prevent any untoward incident along the Line of Control.
Nawaz Sharif issued a statement encouraging Kashmiris to continue their “struggle” as Pakistan observed a total strike to express solidarity with them.
Radio Pakistan quoted him as saying in the morning that the struggle of Kashmiris was “bound to succeed.” This was his message on the day of total strike in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir ordered by him two days ago from Devos (Switzerland) where he was stressing the need for peace between India and Pakistan during his talks with Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao.
All the Urdu English and Punjabi bulletins of Radio Pakistan were devoted to reports which projected India as “a brutal force” in Kashmir.
Sharif’s Kashmir-related statements soon after meeting Narasimha Rao in Davos once again confirm the suspicion that a Pakistani Prime Minister is not all powerful to pursue normalization with India or for that matter any other country Pakistani press reports indicate that the military continues to be the dominant force in the matter of domestic and external polices of Pakistan.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 14, 1992
