Declare Pakistan a ''terrorist state'': BJP

Jammu, Jul 10:Reiterating its demand, Bhartiya Janata Party today said Pakistan should be declared a ''terrorist state'' as its President Asif Ali Zardari has himself confessed that they supported militants, who now have become trouble for them.

Mr Zardari has himself admitted that they supported militancy and now it has become a danger for their country. So Pakistan being a perpetrator of terrorism, should be declared a ''terrorist state,'' Ashok Khajuria, BJP state president told reporters at a press conference here.

Mr Khajuria also condemned British Foreign Minister David Miliband’s statement that Kashmir people should be taken into confidence and their sentiments be considered by India and Pakistan while settling Kashmir issue.

''Such a statement amounts to interference in the sovereignty of a country. Former Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru had committed a historical blunder by referring J&K issue to United Nations (UN) and our party always opposed it,'' added Mr Khajuria.

However, he added that the Indian Parliament had already passed a resolution specifying the issue between India and Pakistan in 1994 when it was specifically said that ''the issue between the two neighbours is only with regard to Pakistan occupied Kashmir which India wants back.'' Meanwhile, on present functioning of the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP leader said, ''NC-led coalition government is incompetent and not having any definite policy to deal with the militancy.’’ Kashmir-centric leaders are in a habit of appeasing the fundamentalists and the same has been observed in the working of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s government.

UNI