ISI gameplan behind corridor, says Capt

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9

Citing the fact that Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa had broken the news of opening the Kartarpur corridor to Navjot Singh Sidhu even before Imran Khan was sworn in as their Prime Minister, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has dubbed the whole affair as a bigger conspiracy hatched by the Pakistan army.

In a press release, the CM said the opening of the corridor was clearly a gameplan of the ISI, adding that a bigger conspiracy seemed to have been hatched by the Pakistan army against India.

He claimed that Pakistan was attempting to revive militancy in Punjab and thus everyone should be wary of its overtures, no matter how grand they appear to be. The CM said this in an interview to a TV channel.

The Sidhu affair was being unnecessarily hyped and those raising it had clearly failed to see the ISI game plan, said Capt Amarinder, lashing out at the Akalis for branding the Punjab minister as stooge of the Pakistan Prime Minister.

The Chief Minister dismissed it as nothing more than a credit war, lambasting the Akalis and the BJP central leadership for indulging in unwarranted controversy over his (Chief Minister’s) relations with Sidhu in a bid to divert public attention from the core issue of Pakistan’s continued and deliberate perpetration of terror activities in Punjab with the ultimate aim of destabilising the border state.

Capt Amarinder said Imran Khan was undoubtedly making efforts to bring peace and harmony with India, but at the same time, he should prevail upon the top brass of Pakistani Army to ensure that killings of our soldiers at the borders stopped immediately.