Govt. should stop looking to Washington for support: BJP

Govt. should stop looking to Washington for support: BJPThe Opposition BJP has asked the Government to stop 'running' to Washington hoping that the US would come to its rescue in tackling Pakistan-backed terrorism.

"Please stop running to mummy (US) hoping that somebody else will help the country to tackle terrorism," senior BJP leader Arun Shourie said.

Initiating a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, he said, the Govt. keeps pinning its hopes on US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice coming to India to resolve the country's problems with regard to terrorism.

Asking the government to stop the peace process with Pakistan, he said, "Your intelligence record shows that ISI is now knitting together Indian insurgent groups".

He argued that no war is ever won by using minimal force; Shourie said the government should go with full force to win over the proxy war unleashed by Pakistan. "Not an eye for an eye. But for an eye, both eyes. For a tooth, whole jaw," he said.

BJP leader mentioned that violence in J&K had come down in the last one year because Pakistan was preoccupied with its own problems in troubled areas like Balochistan and argued that government should take measures to keep Pak engaged with its own problems.

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