SHRI A. G. KULKARNI: Why not?
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: I not accept that. Please try to understand. The real point is that the hon. Member is not authorized by the U. K. to say that they have lost interest. We know from informed sources that they continue to have interest.
Then, the second question that is asked is whether the Government is prepared to take some strong action in relation to our attitude to U. K...
SHRI BHUPESH GUPTA: Sir, on a point of order. The hon. Minister should not say this thing... (Interruption). He says that the U. K. has not authorized him to say that the U. K. has lost interest in it. Is anybody authorized to say that Islamabad has no faith in democracy...
(Interruption)
MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Order, order, please
SHRI CHITTA BASU (West Bengal): Listen to the reply...
MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Please sit down, Mr. Chitta Basu.
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: Then, I am constrained to remark that his expression that I should not be guided by South block is unfair to the members of the Foreign Service. And to imagine that the Minister or the Government should not be serviced by their own civil servants or members of the Foreign Service is, I think, an unkind cut. We can take any attitude in Government as we like. But there is no use of having these digs at the members of the Foreign Service. They carry out Government policy and they are responsible for the implementation of these policies...
DR. BHAI MAHAVIR (Delhi): It is too flattering for the Ministers also.
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: I don't know: it may be, perhaps, castigating, for the Opposition. Should I take it that way?
Then, he said that we should take some strong action. I don't know what precisely is meant by that...
SHRI A. G. KULKARNI: Take the Bangladesh...
SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: That has got nothing to do with Bangladesh. You are talking of our attitude towards U. K. We have received some amount. The question is what other steps we should take to solve the problem. Obviously, we have to continue to create consciousness amongst the international community about their responsibility in this respect. It is important that we should try to mobilize international opinion against Pakistan to make them refrain from carrying on their military oppression against the unarmed people and also to take such steps by which a situation is crested so that the refugees who have now come to India should go back. The political situation should be such that should go back and we should not hesitate to mobilize the entire international community in support of this because we are on firm and just ground. Apart from whatever money might be contributed by the international community to look after these refugees, this is the most important part in which we should enlist their support.
