BJP rubbished suggestions that "bad drafting" had sparked the controversy over the Indo-Pak joint statement in Egypt.
Rubbishing suggestions that "bad drafting" had sparked the controversy over the Indo-Pak joint statement in Egypt, BJP today charged the government with having "acted under pressure" from America.
"The inclusion of the contentious clauses pertaining to Balochistan and de-linking terrorism from composite dialogue process are not merely a result of bad drafting. The Manmohan Singh government has, in fact, acted under pressure from the US which has its own stakes in Af-Pak", senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi told reporters here.
He said the US "has made no secret of its intentions to give a few concessions to Pakistan in return for its support to the anti-Taliban and anti-al-Qaeda operations in the neighbouring Afghanistan".
"But it was not right on part of our prime minister to have agreed to put India in the dock by agreeing on Balochistan at a time when the world opinion had forced Pakistan to accept for the first time that its soil has been used for terrorist activities", Joshi said.
He said there was a "clear difference between being friends with America and being intimidated by it" and asked the Congress-led government to pay heed to the "clues provided by Washington’s recent stand over the nuclear deal issue".
"Our prime minister has so far maintained that Indo-US nuclear deal in no way hindered our nuclear military programme and that India could go ahead and build its nuclear capabilities without inviting sanctions. But now the US as well as other members of the G-8 have made it clear that they will not allow us to have access to crucial technologies unless we sign the NPT", Joshi said.
"This is a serious matter. The insistence of developed countries, led by the US, that without signing the NPT, India will not be given access to Enrichment and Reprocessing Technologies will deprive the country of reaping the benefits of nuclear energy and reduce it to a pile of nuclear waste", he said.
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