Pakistan using China, warns Narendra Modi

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Nov 10, 2011, 03:24 PM IST

Modi has told the Chinese leadership that Pakistan is taking advantage of its relationship with Beijing.

Visiting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has told the Chinese leadership that Pakistan is taking advantage of its relationship with Beijing.

Modi revealed that he had held candid talks with Chinese leaders on Wednesday, especially on contentious issues like the presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, terrorist training camps in Pakistan and the prolonged detention of 22 diamond merchants from Gujarat on charges of smuggling.

"I told them - whatever your intentions, Pakistan is making use of you," Modi said after his meeting with three Chinese leaders, including Wang Gang, a politburo member of the Communist Party of China and vice-chairman of the China People's Consultative Conference.

"There is a lot of concern over Chinese troop presence in PoK in India, and particularly in Gujarat as it was a border state," he told them.

The Chief Minister, who is on a five-day visit to China, said he also raised the circulation of controversial Indian maps, minus some parts of Kashmir and Arunachal which was distributed by a state-owned Chinese company TBEA at a business function in New Delhi.

Modi said he expects China to become the third country after Japan and Canada to establish a special relationship with Gujarat.