Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of adopting a 'perilous path' with Pakistan and warned that Islamabad will take advantage of this 'magnanimity' shown by him.
Expressing his dissatisfaction over Dr Singh's reply on the discussion over the Indo-Pak Joint Statement, former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha told rediff.com the facts given by the prime minister in the Lok Sabha are at variance with what happened at Sharm-El-Sheikh.
Asked if he failed to trap Dr Singh over the joint statement, he said, "May be you felt that I failed, but I did not. I raised a number of issues, which the prime minister did not even bother to touch upon them. He did not say a word about Hafeez Sayeed, the alleged mastermind of the attack on Mumbai."
Sinha warned the government against putting too much faith on Pakistan. "The faith, which our PM is reposing on Pakistan, is misplaced."
In reply to a question on what should be the future of Indo-Pak relations, Sinha said, "We don't have to move forward. We have to strengthen ourselves. We have to guard ourselves against terrorist attacks. Let Pakistan go wherever they want."
Sinha said Pakistan did not deserve the 'magnanimity' Dr Singh had shown towards it. The prime minister was silent on the fate of 26/11 accused JuD chief Hafiz Saeed.
On Balochistan, he said PM had taken the "old beaten line".
Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi said Pakistan 'dared' to include Balochistan in the text of the joint statement 'because we were not serious in our talks with Islamabad'.
He also wondered what action the government was contemplating on bureaucrats who committed the 'drafting mistakes'. Terming the PM's statement as 'unsatisfactory', Joshi said issues on end-use agreement and ENR technology needed more debate.
Additional Inputs: PTI
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