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| It's not Congress era Bilawal Zardari should forget Kashmir | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 20: Crumbling Pakistani state has found in the person of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chief patron Bilawal Bhutto Zardari another India-baiter, who on Friday at Pakistan Punjab's Multan made highly irresponsible and provocative statements against India. He visited parts of flood-hit Multan for an on-the-spot assessment and was accompanied, among others, by former Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf
Raza Gilani, who had succeeded in making our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh do a U-turn and include a reference to Baluchistan in the joint-declaration made at Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt). The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had yielded to the suggestion of his Pakistani counterpart that terror and talks could go hand-in-hand - a diplomatic blunder which evoked a very strong reaction in India - and virtually endorsed the Pakistani charge that India was involved in anti-Pakistan activities in Baluchistan.
Bilawal Zardari at Multan said many things against India and revealed his Kashmir policy. Making it clear that he would pursue the line of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his mother Benazir Bhutto, he said that he
would take back Kashmir from India. "I will not leave behind an inch of it (Jammu & Kashmir). Like other provinces, Kashmir belongs to Pakistan," he said.
This was precisely what Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto used to say. What happened to Pakistan during the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's regime in 1971 is too fresh to be forgotten. Pakistan during his regime had split and Bangladesh had come into being as an independent and sovereign nation with the help of India. Not just this, Pakistan suffered a massive defeat at the hands of the Indian army. The nature of defeat Pakistan suffered could be gauged from the fact that over 90,000 Pakistani soldiers, including army commanders, had laid down their arms before the victorious and advancing Indian army. Benazir
Bhutto too had tried to muddy the Indian waters in Kashmir by instigating its Kashmir-based agents against India, but with no result. They would fight a thousand-year-long battle with India and would not change their stand on Kashmir, they used to say. And now Bilawal Zardari pledges that he would take back from India Kashmir. Bilawal Zardari is living in a world of the past. Things in India today have completely changed. The Congress, which always bungled, yielded and converted the splendid victories of our armed forces in the battlefield into humiliating diplomatic defeats, ha been booted out of power by the aggrieved Indian nation. The present dispensation, which is led by Narendra Modi, has already made it amply clear that its foreign policy would be different from the one Jawaharlal Nehru evolved and implemented and his daughter Indira Gandhi and grandson Rajiv Gandhi pursued and that India would not tolerate anything non-sense. Only last month, the Indian Foreign Office established by its action that it meant business. It called of the scheduled foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries following the provocative meetings between Pakistan High Commisssioner and separatists like Shabir Shah, Mirwaiz, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik in Delhi on August 18 and 19.
Bilawal Zardari, who was desperate to get some media coverage by making atrocious statements against India and whose party, like the Congress party, was almost decimated by the Pakistani electorate last year, should talk sense. He should remember that Islamabad has to deal with Narendra Modi, whatever it may think about him. Modi has become a very powerful factor in the Indian political situation and no threat - not even threat that Pakistan would use its nuclear weapons - can browbeat the Indian nation under the new government. It would be better if Bilawal Zardari and his associates forget Jammu & Kashmir and focus their attention on serious issues facing Pakistan. |
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