Pak’s latest flip flop: No Baloch dossier given to India

In yet another evidence of Pakistans flip-flops,Islamabad,for the first time has admitted that it has not handed any dossier regarding Baloch insurgency to India.

In an interview with a news weekly,Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi,in an apparent volte-face,said Pakistan actually never handed any dossier to India during Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs meeting with Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the NAM summit at Sharm-el-Sheikh in July.

No,we didnt. Actually,we flagged the issue on Balochistan. We asked for a positive attitude and asked for non-interference inside Balochistan, The Nation quoted Qureshi,as saying.

While Islamabad,till now,has continuously been claiming that it has handed a dossier to India regarding latters involvement in the Baloch insurgency,New Delhi has out rightly rejected the claims.

Following Pakistans baseless claims,the UPA Government faced severe criticism from the opposition for allowing some damaging concessions to the neighbour country.

Prime Minister Manmohan had to clarify the governments stand in parliament and he said that no such dossier were given by Pakistan during the meeting in Egypt.

No dossier on Balochistan has been handed over to me, Singh said during his speech during the monsoon session of the Lok Sabha.

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Trying to corner the government over the alleged sell off to Pakistan in Egypt,senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha alleged that India has committed a blunder by agreeing to de-link action against terror by Pakistan to the resumption of the composite dialogue.

Pakistani media had described that the Baloch dossiers claims as true and added that it had been presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with details of Indias alleged role in fomenting trouble in Balochistan and other areas.

According to the Pakistani media,Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani himself mentioned the dossiers presence.