Holding that the former Army chief had "destroyed the credibility" of the Army and "tarnished" India's image, Abdullah on Saturday said he would ask PM Manmohan Singh to institute a "high-level" inquiry into the entire episode once he returns from the US next week.
"Action should be taken against him (Gen Singh) ... he should be prosecuted," said Abdullah, a day after eight former Army chiefs also rejected Gen Singh's claims and held the Army was "a completely apolitical force" that did not dabble in politics.
Speaking to a private news channel ahead of the Manmohan Singh-Nawaz Sharif meeting in New York on Sunday, Abdullah also stressed that "talking" was the "only way forward" to resolve the festering India-Pakistan problems despite the recent terror strikes in the Jammu region.
"There is no other way. Is war going to solve any problem? How do you teach them a lesson, by sending in the Indian Army, by sending in the IAF, by sending in the Navy - are you not going to rake up more trouble?" he asked. "They are also a nuclear power. Do you want a nuclear bomb here as much as we might throw a nuclear bomb there? India is showing that even after all the provocation on our border, we still want to find peaceful method," he added.
Turning to Gen VK Singh, he said the former Army chief was "absolutely lying" as far as any payoffs to the NC were concerned. "I, my son or any member of my party has never taken money from the Army," he said.
Abdullah held the government was "paying the price" for not sacking Gen Singh as the Army chief when he had dragged it to the Supreme Court in January last year over his date-of-birth matter. "He has done more damage than anything else," he said.
Gen Singh has clarified he had not meant that politicians in J&K were being bribed or were on the Army's payroll. Instead, he added, the funding was to organise activities to wean away youth from the separatist cause and generate goodwill in the troubled border state.
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