New Delhi, July 29 - The BJP Wednesday launched a frontal assault on the government for compromising on India's stated position on Pakistan in the Sharm-el-Sheikh joint statement and said the 'waters of the seven seas will not be able to wash the shame' brought on the country through this flawed initiative.

'The distinction between the aggressor and the victim has been completely obliterated,' Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha, also a former foreign minister, said while alluding to a line in the joint statement that says both countries recognise terrorism as the 'chief threat'.

Sinha was speaking during a debate on the July 16 India-Pakistan joint statement in parliament that was issued after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt. The controversial statement, which delinks action on terror from the composite dialogue process, has been decried by the opposition as a capitulation to Pakistan over the issue of terrorism.

Sinha also exposed what he called 'a complete turnaround' in the government's position on terrorism emanating from Pakistan in less than a month from Manmohan Singh's meeting with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Yekaterinburg on June 16 and his meeting with Gilani on July 16.

At Yekaterinburg, Manmohan Singh had told Zardari within earshot of the media that he had 'a limited mandate' to tell him that the Pakistani territory should not be allowed to be used for terror attacks against India.