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PPP asks Musharraf to stop infiltration into India

Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party on Wednesday asked the military regime to fulfil its promise of stopping infiltration of terrorists into India.

In a statement, PPP vice-chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim said Pakistan would be judged not by the promises it made but by the promises it kept.

President Pervez Musharraf, in his January 12 speech, had promised to crack down on Islamic militancy, Fahim said.

He also warned that the lingering perception about Pakistan still supporting infiltration across the border would gravely undermine the country's security.

On Musharraf's televised address on Monday during which he said the government would not allow terrorists to use Pakistan's territory to carry out attacks, he said: "This formulation also was an indication of the admission that such activities have been taking place from this side of the Line of Control."

"This duality would send very wrong signals to all concerned and further increase the isolation of the country in the community of nations," he said.

Federal Information Minister, Nisar Memon had called on Fahim at his residence in Karachi to invite the PPP for the second all-party meet proposed to be held by Musharraf later this week.

The PPP had on Tuesday turned down the offer saying it would not attend the meeting until the invitation was directed to the party's chairperson Benazir Bhutto, who was leading the party from self-exile.

All the mainstream political and religious parties had boycotted the first meeting convened by Musharraf early last week. They, in-turn, demanded his resignation and constitution of a national government to deal with the Indo-Pak crisis.

PTI

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