India blasts Pak for 'compulsive hostility'.
JPR:
One word to the guy, way to go Jaswant, good show.
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NEW YORK, SEPT 23: In the harshest ever attack on Pakistan at an international forum, India has accused its neighbour of "compulsive hostility" that had repeatedly betrayed New Delhi's acts of faith.
In his address to the 54th UN General Assembly being delivered at the time of going to the press, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh also lit into Islamabad for sponsoring terrorism in India and called for progress on an international convention against terrorism in the current session.
"Terrorism is a menace to which open societies are vulnerable; it becomes particularly difficult for democracies when terrorists are armed, financed, and backed by governments or their agencies, and benefit from the protection of state power," Singh said in a pointed and transparent reference to Islamabad and its intelligence agency ISI.
Speaking at length on the Kargil episode, Singh told the General Assembly that Pakistan had betrayed India's faith and violated not just the Lahore Accord, but also the SimlaAgreement, which had prevented conflict for 25 years.
"The aggression over territory can be more easily vacated, that territory of trust which has been transgressed is infinitely more difficult to restore," Singh said in a reference to demands from various quarters for resumption of dialogue between the two sides.....
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