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SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Shri Pranab Mukherjee, you said ‘because it is unilateral and he said’. 

            Our objection is why Balochistan is mentioned here which is a Joint India-Pakistan Statement and for the first time in all these years. They have been making this allegation earlier also, and I am sure that when the Prime Minister talked to Shri Gilani, he must have told him that we have nothing to do with it, which has been said by you today and also by the Prime Minister. But why, when this was mentioned in the India-Pakistan Statement, could we not have added our viewpoint also?

SHRIMATI SUSHMA SWARAJ : Why?

SHRI S.M. KRISHNA: It is because we had nothing to hide… (Interruptions)  We had nothing to hide.… (Interruptions)

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Madam Speaker, this is a strange answer.  If we had nothing to hide then we should have objected to the inclusion of this word there.  For the first time, this has been included.  They may have tried earlier also. Furthermore, if it was to be included then we should have said there that India has nothing to do with what is happening in Balochistan.  This should also have been said… (Interruptions).  I am not surprised that even within the Congress Party, there are demands that the Prime Minister clarifies his position on Balochistan and why has he signed it… (Interruptions)