After India said it cannot trust BB. BB has hit back saying that it is because of her that militancy in Indian Punjab stopped. This indicates that Pakistan was involved in the support of separatist that wanted ‘Khalistan’.
**I kept my promise, Rajiv did not: Benazir
**NEW DELHI: Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has claimed that it was because of her initiatives that militancy could end in Punjab in an assertion that marks the first-ever confession by a Pakistani leader of Islamabad’s support to the Khalistani secessionists.
Retaliating against national security advisor M K Narayanan’s charge that Bhutto, as premier of Pakistan, had failed to make good the promises she made, the PPP leader claimed that she had kept her word. Benazir said that she had fulfilled her assurance to Rajiv Gandhi to cut off Islamabad’s support to Khalistanis.
The former Prime Minister, who was replying to questions by a news weekly, said the fact was that it was Rajiv Gandhi who failed to deliver on his promise to pull out troops from Siachen in exchange for Islamabad’s choking off the support to Khalistani secessionists.
Pakistan’s support to anti-India terror in Punjab was never a secret, but it is the first time that somebody as senior as a former prime minister of that country has acknowledged the plan to ‘inflict a thousand cuts’ on India to avenge the loss of East Pakistan.
NSA Narayanan had recently said that Bhutto could never be trusted as she had not kept her promises given to Rajiv Gandhi. Bhutto said Narayanan could not have known what transpired in 1988 because it was a one-to-one meeting.
“If anyone kept the word, it was I, not Rajiv. He (Rajiv) went back to India and then called me on his way to the Commonwealth to say that he could not keep his promise to withdraw from Siachen and that he would do it only after the 1989 election,” Bhutto alleged. She said: “There was not a fly on the wall. How can anyone say I have not kept my promises when the single biggest result of that meeting was the end of the Sikh insurgency.”
However, the man responsible for wiping out Khalistani secessionism, top cop KPS Gill, rubbished Bhutto’s claim taking all credit for the containment of militancy in the bordering state. “No PM in Pakistan would have the stature to change the ‘destabilize India’ policy,” he told TOI.