Destroy Pak. terrorist camps: Khurana

By Our Staff Correspondent

RAIPUR, OCT. 16. The Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, today said India should strike at the terrorist camps in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference here after the executive meeting of the party State unit, Mr. Khurana said if the U.S. could declare a war on Afghanistan following terrorist attacks on September 11, in waging a war on Pakistan, India was justified since it had been suffering a proxy war for the past two decades. ``The attack on the J&K Assembly on October 1 was a golden chance for India to take action and such opportunities come rarely in history,'' he said.

When asked whether Monday's attacks on Pakistani outposts were an indication of what was to follow, Mr. Khurana said the Army's was a strategic decision taken by the Centre. A war against Pakistan was not his party's stand but the sentiment of the common man. The issue would be taken up at the Central executive working committee meeting in Amritsar on November 2, 3 and 4.

India would not and should not depend on the U.S. for combating terrorism or resolving the Kashmir issue, Mr. Khurana said. It was a bilateral issue and would be sorted out by the two countries.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Chhatisgarh had been postponed to the last week of November. The BJP had invited him to Raipur to attend the foundation day celebrations of Chhatisgarh on November 1. However, since there was no formal invitation from the Chief Minister, Mr. Vajpayee's trip had been rescheduled.

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