New Delhi, July 27: With fresh disclosure of the contents of a dossier detailing action against the Mumbai attackers given by Islamabad to New Delhi, the Congress on Monday came out in strong support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Pakistan initiative that delinks action on terror from the composite dialogue process.
“The Congress is confident that when the prime minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters. The prime minister should have the liberty to take decisions and “move forward” on key foreign policy issues like Pakistan, added union minister Salman Khurshid while denying that there was a rift between the party and the government over the July 16 joint statement that includes for the first time a reference to Balochistan and agrees to delink the issue of terrorism from the composite dialogue process.
“The Congress is confident that when the prime minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters. The prime minister should have the liberty to take decisions and “move forward” on key foreign policy issues like Pakistan, added union minister Salman Khurshid while denying that there was a rift between the party and the government over the July 16 joint statement that includes for the first time a reference to Balochistan and agrees to delink the issue of terrorism from the composite dialogue process.
