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Benazir urges India, Pakistan to slash defence spending
ISLAMABAD, May 18 : Pakistani Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto called on India and Pakistan on Sunday to slash their defence spending, reports Reuter.
Time has come for India and Pakistan to sit across the table and come Up with a positive. calculated plan to cut the defence expenditure, thereby releasing funds for the social sector and improving their economic base for their countries to survive," she said In parliament.
Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz said on Friday security concerns did not permit Pakistan to make the defence budget cuts demanded by Its western old donors.
But he said on Friday there was no defence spending increase in real terms If inflation. a halt to US military aid and the cost of pensions were taken Into consideration.
Pakistan's budgets for the fiscal year 1992/93. which begins on July 1. raised defence spending by about 8.4 per cent over last year's to 82.15 billion rupee (dollar 3.26 billion).
Bhutto said a unilateral defence cut by Pakistan was a difficult proposition after three wars with India since the two countries gained fhdepen-dencc from Britain In 1947.
"But this does not mean we should be paralysed by Inactivity." she said.
The problem needs a political solution. It needs a bilat-
eral solution and Just throwing the charge of defence expenditure at the door of the military...docs no service to a civilian leader to whom all segments of the society, including the military, look for leadership and solution of problems".
In the latest Indian budget, announced In February, defence spending rose by seven per cent to 175 billton rupee (dollar 6.1 billion). But tt meant a cut In real terms for the second year running bc-cause of high Inflation and devaluation of the Indian currency by about 20 per cent against the dollar.
Bhutto said the sub-continent was "crying for a solution" that could give economic freedom to its masses.
The leaders of both sides need to rise and meet this challenge or they will be waylaid by history and time."
AFP adds: At least nine people were Injured — seven of them shot by a paramilitary patrol — during a protest by Baluchs In Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province Sunday, official sources said.
The patrol opened fire in self-defence after a stone-throwing mob attacked them and tried to torch their vehicle in the town of Khuzdar, about 350 kilometers south of here, the sources said.
All the injured were hospitalized In Khuzdar except one seriously wounded person who was transferred for treatment to Karachi In neighbouring Sind province, they said.
Earlier in a Baluch-domi-nated part of Quetta, a policeman was hit In the leg by a sniper and a magistrates driver received minor Injuries
when he was waylaid by a group hurling stones, the sources said.
The Baluchs had called for a transport and business strike Sunday to demand the holding of elections for Quetta municipal corporation which were postponed May 7 following a dispute over the demarcation of constituencies.
Witnesses said the strike call went unheeded In the provincial capital where Pashtuns, a minority in Baluchistan as a whole, are a majority.
However, the protest disrupted life in Baluch populated regions In southern and cen tral parts of the province, reports reaching here said
In Quetta, armed police patrolled the streets and a curfew. which has been applied daily for the past several days, went Into force in the afternoon.
Baluch political parties and student organizations arc bitterly opposed TP recent orders for a judicial commission to redraw municipal constituencies which came after Pashtun protests that the addition of 12 scats had benefited Baluchs.