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Pakistan can't preach democracy: PM

October 18, 2003 19:30 IST
Source:PTI

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday criticised Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for demanding a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.

"There has been talk of right to self-determination. Does Pakistan have democracy? Does it have an elected government?" he asked in reference to Musharraf's address to the Organisation of Islamic Conference summit in Malaysia.

"Those who rule at gunpoint are talking of right to self-determination. It is not right," he said after laying the foundation stone of the Panipat Refinery Expansion Project in Haryana.

The PM ruled our early resumption of talks and said Pakistan should, among other things, vacate the areas that it has occupied in J&K.

He regretted that the international community was having double standards on terrorists, and said India would defeat it on its own.

Source: PTI
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