New Delhi, July 25: Senior BJP leader L K Advani today slammed the Government’s Pakistan policy, claiming that it was completely alienated from public opinion of the day.
“Presently, New Delhi’s Pakistan Policy is really in a shambles,” the former Deputy Prime Minister wrote on his blog and pointed out that a vital touchstone for judging the government’s handling of foreign affairs has been approach to its western neighbour.
Advani said the prime purpose of India’s Pakistan policy must be to force “this neighbour of ours to abandon terrorism” and recalled the “uncompromising” stand of the BJP-led government on cross-border terrorism that had forced then Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to return “empty-handed” from the Agra Summit in July 2001.
–Agencies