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Pak adopts delaying tactics to peace proposals: India

IRNA

New Delhi, Oct 31, IRNA -- India Thursday criticized some of the 
counter-proposals submitted by Islamabad, while taking note of 
Pakistan`s "limited positive response" to its initiative to repair 
bilateral ties. 
"We are disappointed that they have attached impractical, 
extraneous or delaying conditions" to some of the proposals, India`s 
Ministry of the External Affairs (MEA), Spokesperson Navtej Sarna 
said here Thursday evening. 
Pakistan`s linking of India`s proposal for new land and sea routes
with a "composite dialogue" is seen here as a delaying tactic, its 
conditional acceptance of the UN passports for those crossing the 
border in Jammu and Kashmir considered an impractical demand, and its 
concern for "people brutalized by the violence in Kashmir" viewed as 
"a ploy for its failed attempt to camouflage its sponsorship and 
support for terrorism." 
While not rejecting Islamabad`s proposal for a composite 
dialogue, New Delhi reiterated its formulation that the process cannot
start till Pakistan stops abetting cross-border infiltration. 
At the same time, India welcomed Pakistan`s positive response to 
some proposals made on October 22. 
Based on Pakistan`s affirmative response, the MEA announced the 
immediate implementation of the proposal to allow senior citizens to 
cross the international border from the Wagah checkpoint near Amritsar
on foot. 
India also said that it would initiate further steps to develop 
links between the Coast Guards of both countries, to encourage 
bilateral sports relations and to restore air and rail links. 
"We will work on the modalities of Pakistan`s proposal for the 
release of arrested fishermen within a month, although we would have 
preferred to work out an arrangement for their non-arrest," the 
spokesperson said, reading from a two-page note. 
India accepted Pakistan`s counter-offer of medical treatment to 40
Indian children and said that such offers and their implementation 
would increase interaction and contribute to increasing understanding.
However, most part of the media interaction was devoted to 
expressing disappointment over Pakistan`s counter-offers announced on 
Wednesday. 
Pakistan`s linking of additional travel routes by land and sea 
with a composite dialogue on all issues was a "delaying tactic." 
On Pakistan`s conditional acceptance of UN-manned checkpoints 
for those planning to use the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road link, the 
spokesperson said India`s offer was motivated by humanitarian 
considerations, but the other side had opted to "politicize and 
disrupt this by attaching conditions that they knew would not be 
acceptable." 
In fact, even now people from these regions travel without the 
required documents (UN passports) by Pakistan, the spokesperson 
pointed out. 
India had weighed and accepted in principle Pakistan`s additional 
proposal for a bus link between Lahore and Amritsar, but action could 
start after progress had been made on restoring the rail and air 
connections. 
Pakistan`s offer of providing medical treatment to people of Jammu
and Kashmir "brutalized by the violence" and offer of 100 scholarships
to the State`s children were rejected outright. The proposal would 
be accepted only if Pakistan made non-region specific offers. 
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