Sunday, June 12 2005 12:30 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: With the brief honeymoon with Pakistan coming to an abrupt end after party president L K Advani's controversial visit, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (Jun 12, 2005) went on the offensive against Islamabad for rolling out the red carpet for the separatist Hurriyat leaders and vowed to rock Parliament on the issue.

"The Hurriyat delegation was allowed to go to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) by permit and it was the duty of the Pakistan Government not to allow them to enter Pakistan without Indian passports. Our apprehension that the bus to Muzaffarabad would facilitate separatist elements to enter Pakistan without Indian passports has been proved true," BJP Parliamentary party spokesman V K Malhotra said in New Delhi.

Condemning as "fallacious and unacceptable" Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's statement that Hurriyat represented the people of Jammu and Kashmir, he said. "They have no representation in Jammu and Ladakh regions. In Kashmir valley also, Hurriyat never contested elections and have no representative character at all."

Terming as "highly objectionable" Pakistan's action in "supporting and actively helping separatist elements", the BJP deputy leader in Lok Sabha said it was in "blatant violation" of the joint statement issued by Musharraf and then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on January 6, 2004.

He asked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to explain what action it contemplated against Hurriyat leaders "who have deliberately travelled without Indian passports".

Pointing out that Pakistan had not allowed elected representative of Jammu and Kashmir to travel to PoK, he said BJP would vociferously raise the issue in the coming session of Parliament and the Government will have "much to explain".

Significantly, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the latest issue of its mouthpiece 'Organiser' had criticised the BJP for ignoring the Hurriyat's visit to Pakistan.

"In the unnecessary controversy over Jinnah, the country has totally ignored the dangerous game Hurriyat has been playing in Pakistan. As a national party, the BJP should have been on the forefront exposing their mischief.

"Giving political cover to Manmohan Singh's Pakistan mission - if there is one - is not BJP's role," it said in a lead article by Editor R Balashankar.