BJP raises Pakistan concerns to China
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari here on Friday said that there was a strong public opinion in India over Bejing?s developmental projects in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
He expressed the party?s concerns on Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism in India.
Gadkari, currently on a five-day goodwill visit to China along with a delegation of senior party leaders, held a discussion with the Chinese vice-minister Ai Ping in the International Department of the Communist party of China.
The BJP President said that Beijing?s purported attempts to block certain Pakistan-based terrorist outfits like Jama’at-ud-Da’wah from being black-listed by the United Nations was having an adverse impact on the party’s efforts to improve people-to-people contacts between the two countries.
Jama’at-ud-Da’wah is a banned Islamic organisation that is considered by the United Nations to be an alias of the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Other issues which do not auger well for the BJP?s efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between the two of the world?s fastest emerging economies is China?s military assistance and the supply of nuclear reactors to Pakistan, he said.
?Terrorism does not recognise any boundaries and there are very strong growing inter-linkages amongst terror groups,? he said.
According to the BJP, Chinese leaders shared Gadkari?s concern over terrorism and said that Beijing understood the importance of all the issues raised by the party President.
Gadkari alleged that China has a greater influence on Pakistan and thus, BJP would expect Beijing to put pressure on Islamabad to stop exporting terror machinery to India and act against the perpetrators of all acts of terrorism on the Indian soil, including the culprits responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
He also pointed out that the people of Nyoma Block of Leh who live at the border with China are facing lots of difficulties due to the alleged intrusion from the Chinese side in Demchok.
