India responsible for Balochistan, Waziristan unrest: Shahbaz
By: Bari Baloch
November 19, 2009
QUETTA – Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that India
is playing an active role in destabilising Pakistan by its direct
involvement in Balochistan and Waziristan affairs.
He expressed these views while addressing a Press conference along
with Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani during
his brief visit to Quetta here on Wednesday.
PML-N central leader Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, PPP Provincial
Minister Sadiq Umrani and other officials were also present on the
occasion.
He said that PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif had outrightly declared that PML-
N wanted a peaceful solution to Balochistan problem and stressed that
all stakeholders in this regard should be taken on board.
‘Concrete steps are needed to address the grievances of Balochistan
and all other provinces should play their due role in this regard’, he
added.
Replying to a question regarding involvement of India in deteriorating
the law and order situation in Balochistan, he said that India was
directly involved not only in Balochistan but also in Waziristan.
‘Under a conspiracy India is creating misperceptions about Pakistan
and misleading the world through baseless propaganda’, he added.
He said that Pakistan had always tried to maintain good relations with
his neighbouring countries including India but India always got
involved in destabilising Pakistan.
He said that India always blamed Pakistan for terrorism but it had
failed to provide evidences in this regard. ‘Let us live like a good
neighbours and concentrate on the issues like poverty and welfare of
our people’, he suggested to India.
To a query, Shahbaz said that PML-N had a clear stance about Kerry-
Lugar Bill. ‘Even John Kerry during his visit to Pakistan had admitted
that PML-N had serious reservations over the bill’, he said, adding,
that PML-N had also condemned the drone attacks in Tribal Areas of the
country.
The Punjab CM said that although US was a superpower, Pakistan should
maintain good relations with it and other countries on equality basis.
PML-N is endeavouring to have Pakistan recognised in the world as
prestigious country and for this we have to overcome our weakness, he
said.
Answering another question, Shahbaz said that military dictators had
always harmed the country after trampling down the Constitution and
derailing democracy. He said that in other democratic countries Army
was subordinate to political governments, but in Pakistan, Army had
interfered in political process repeatedly that had pushed the country
towards poverty, unemployment, disharmony and mistrust among provinces.
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