Click to play videoNew Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that Pakistan has given India no proof of its involvement in Balochistan. He said that Pakistan must produce evidence before making such allegations.
"We are not involved in Balochistan, we have nothing to do with Pakistan's internal problems in Balochistan. In fact the Balochistan leader has said that he gets no support from India. Besides, why should we get involved when we have enough problems on our western borders with Pakistan?" he said.
The Home Minister was responding to Pakistan's fresh allegations against India.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that India was interfering in Balochistan and India-run terror camps in Afghanistan were training youth from Balochistan. Malik made the comments while speaking in the Senate, the upper house of Pakistan's parliament.
He said that the problems of the people of Balochistan will be solved and the details regarding this would be unveiled in the Senate soon. Malik said the government would "not hold talks with angry and pulsating people who are talking about independence".
A Pakistani newspaper report quoted Pakistani official sources suggesting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to the mention of Balochistan in the joint statement after his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani confronted him in Sharm-el-Sheikh with a dossier detailing India's covert activities in the resource-rich volatile province of Balochistan.
The report also alleged that India was responsible for the attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Manawan police academy in Lahore.
India has rubbished both these accusations and in fact, official sources also vehemently denied media reports that a dossier had been given by Pakistan to India which contained "evidence" of India's involvement in Balochistan.
PAST GHOSTS
Chidambaram also refused to comment on former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's remarks that the Kargil conflict in 1999 was a "big success" for Pakistan as it forced India to start talks on the Kashmir issue.
"No comments," was Chidambaram's blunt reply when asked about Musharraf's comments made to CNN-IBN.
Musharraf, who was the army chief of Pakistan in 1999, had said in an interview to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar that the Kargil operation was a "big success" as it forced India to come to the negotiating table on Kashmir,
"Yes, indeed, it was a big success because it had (an) impact even on the attitude of the Indian side. How did we start discussing the Kashmir dispute?" Musharraf said in Devil's Advocate.
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