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Condemn rallies by pro-Taliban forces, says Swamy

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday urged the Government of India to condemn the violent demonstrations by pro-Taliban forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan against the alleged defiling of the Holy Koran by a U.S. soldier in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

In a statement, he said: "No government, including the U.S., can be held responsible for the acts of every soldier of the Army even if such deplorable incidents do take place."

The Taliban Government, he said, had officially used guns to blast the world's tallest Buddha statue in Bamiyan in 2000.

"It is time the Islamic fundamentalists learned the Gandhian message that violence begets more violence, and in the end agents of violence will be the losers."

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