Nawaz should not meet Manmohan amid tension: Khosa

Pakistan People’s Party Secretary-General Sardar Latif Khosa on Monday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should not meet Indian PM Manmohan Singh until prevention of unprovoked Indian firing at LoC and atrocities against the Kashmiris in the Indian-held Kashmir.
He said this in a statement issued from Bilawal House. He said that agitation in front of the Pakistani High Commission in India and stopping of Friendship Bus by extremists were the latest manifestations of highhandedness of India, which could not be accepted.
He deplored the desperation of Nawaz to seek his meeting with Indian counterpart in New York during UN General Assembly session this year caring less for the dignity and the sovereignty of the country adding the enslavement of Indian hegemony was not acceptable to the people of Pakistan.
The Indian PM did not oblige Pakistan when he extended an invitation to attend his oath-taking ceremony, he pointed out.
He said that the meek response of the government through the Foreign Office was both condemnable and contemptible which no nation with self-respect would resort to. Pakistan wants good relations with all neighbouring countries, including India on the basis of equality and mutual interest and any bid of servility of the country should be paid in the same coin, he added.
He paid rich tributes to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto who made Pakistan’s defence impregnable by making Pakistan an atomic power and later equipped it with missile technology capable of hitting any target anywhere in the territory of enemy country.
He maintained that because of status of country’s atomic power along with missile technology, the balance of power in the region was restored ensuring the peace in the region and also saving Pakistan from the Indian nuclear blackmail which would have been the worst kind of it in inter-state relations.