Sep 25, 2003: Atal class routs Pervez
	Atal class routs Pervez http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story1%2Etxt&counter_img=1 By Shobori Ganguli/New York at Pioneer If only words could kill. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a sophisticated decimation of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's Kashmir posturing, with Mr Vajpayee declaring India's refusal to "let terrorism become a tool of blackmail". Much as the practice has become routine - the General screaming Kashmir from the UN rooftop, India compelled to an unfortunate slanging match - the Prime Minister's observations on Pakistan this year stood a class apart in their sophistication from  President Musharraf's hackneyed histrionics. And, the General had it coming. "Yesterday, the President of Pakistan chose this august assembly to make a public admission for the first time that Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir. After claiming that there is an indigenous struggle in Kashmir, he has offered to encourage a general cessation of violence within Kashmir, in return for 'reciprocal obligations and restraints'," Mr Vajpayee said. Commenting on the "extraordinary inability" of the UN Security Council to arrive at a consensus on Iraq despite a complete agreement on basic objectives, Mr Vajpayee said, "The reality is that international  institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be." He identified three areas of introspection for the UN, especially in the context of the unilateral US-led invasion of Iraq. ............. ................. .................. The original document can be found in the archives at dailypioneer.com for above date.