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BJP calls for joint operations in Kashmir

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India should urge U.N. to put the ISI on the watch list: Rajnath Singh

BJP president Rajnath Singh

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh has suggested that India should propose joint military operations with Pakistan against terrorists.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said this would test the joint anti-terror mechanism set up at the initiative of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Proposals for joint military operations should be put before Bangladesh also as terrorist training camps were working in that country too.

Mr. Singh said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was playing an important role behind terrorism in India. There was documentary proof to support that. India should take the international community into confidence and urge the United Nations to put the ISI on the watch list.

He noted that the terrorist activities had spread to the South also. However, the Union Government lacked the political will to contain terror.

Denying that there was any factionalism in the Kerala unit of the BJP, Mr. Singh said he was not aware of the forum `Janapaksham' formed by party dissident K. Raman Pillai.

He said the CPI(M) and the Congress were colluding to avoid a CBI investigation into corruption in the power project contract with SNC Lavalin of Canada entered during the previous Left Democratic Front Ministry.

Though the High Court had directed a CBI inquiry, the Centre was yet to take necessary steps.

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