NEW DELHI, Mar 14: India today reacted sharply to the resolution passed by Pakistan Parliament to condemn the hanging of terrorist Afzal Guru, saying it was “highly improper” with Foreign Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid tersely asking Islamabad not to dabble in internal matters of this country.
“They should address matters of their own country. They should let us address the matters of our country,” Khurshid told reporters when asked about the resolution.
Trying to fish in troubled waters, Pakistan’s National Assembly today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of Parliament attack convict Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath also said that India has taken the step to hang Guru as per its law.
“India, as a responsible country, is doing things constitutionally, and as per the law. For the Parliament of Pakistan to pass such a resolution is highly improper,” he said.
The National Assembly or Lower House of Pakistani Parliament today passed a resolution moved by Jamiat Ulema- e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads a special Parliamentary Panel on Kashmir.
Besides condemning the hanging of Guru, the resolution expressed concern at the situation created in Jammu and Kashmir by the execution.
Guru was hanged and buried within Tihar Jail in Delhi on February 9.
BJP today strongly condemned Pakistan Parliament’s resolution demanding handing over of Afzal Guru’s body to his relatives and said this proves the neighbouring country is a “terror State” where its own Lower House legitimises terrorism.
“BJP would like to say that the world needs no confirmation now that Pakistan is a terror State and Pakistan Parliament pleads for terrorists. It is a failed State and the resolution should be condemned in no uncertain words by every country across the world,” party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters.
He said Pakistan had harboured Osama-bin Laden, responsible for the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, in the backyard of a military camp.
“Pakistan has no business to pass such a resolution in its Parliament and interfere in the internal matters of India. This act of Pakistan Parliament deserves the severest condemnation,” he said.
“The world needs to understand that Pakistan is the den and source of world terror where its Parliament itself legitimises terror,” Rudy said.
In Islamabad, trying to fish in troubled waters, Pakistan’s Parliament today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of Afzal Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family.
Two days before it completes its five-year term, the National Assembly or Lower House of Parliament passed the resolution moved by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads a special Parliamentary Panel on Kashmir.
Besides condemning the hanging of Guru, 2001 Parliament attack convict, the resolution expressed concern at the situation created in Jammu and Kashmir by the execution.
The House called for Guru’s body to be handed over to his family. Guru was hanged and buried within Tihar Jail in Delhi in February.
His execution triggered protests in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan-based terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have vowed to take revenge for the hanging.
The Parliamentary resolution further said the international community should not remain as silent spectators in efforts to find a solution to the Kashmir dispute.
It said steps should be taken to implement the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions on the Kashmir issue.
The resolution called for an end to alleged killings in Jammu and Kashmir and the removal of the Army from towns and cities of the Kashmir Valley.
It further said all prisoners should be freed, “black laws” repealed and curfew withdrawn from the region.
The resolution also said authorities should end curfew, lift a “blackout” of the media and free jailed Kashmiri leaders and youth.
There should be no restrictions on religious activities and international human rights groups should be allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir, the resolution said.
It contended that the Kashmiri people were engaged in a movement for their right to self-determination.
The House said Kashmiris were “not alone in this movement as the whole of Pakistan was with them’.
The resolution reiterated Pakistan’s diplomatic, political and moral support for the Kashmiri people.
It further contended that the Kashmir region was a disputed area and not an “internal issue of India”. (PTI)
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