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| Pakistan indulges in blame game | | | That Pakistan is adept in indulging in
blame game is evident from the way it
has adopted tough postures vis-à-vis India on one hand and on the other has been accusing India of nursing extra territorial ambitions. The country's top diplomat said on Wednesday that Pakistan needed a major shift in ties with Afghanistan, Iran and India to achieve the goal of a peaceful region.Notwithstanding the fact that Pakistan has been exporting terror to India,particularly to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, for the last 25 years India has still been in favour of resolving bilateral problems through the process of dialogue.What is amazing is the way Islamabad has been blaming New Delhi for hiking annual defence budget when Pakistan has been receiving full military aid from China.Even Washington has been providing economic and military aid to Islamabad from time to time.Pakistan should know that India is surrounded by two enemy countries,China and Pakistan,and this situation has made it mandatory for India to build its defence grid so that it can meet challenges from Beijing and Islamabad. What is equally surprising that despite enhancing annual expenses on defence sector and increased military aid from China and the US Pakistan pledges to work for peace in the region. Islamabad's top diplomat has said that Pakistan needed a major shift in ties with Afghanistan, Iran and India to achieve the goal of a peaceful region, Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz said: "The vision of a peaceful neighbourhood cannot be realised without a qualitative transformation in our relations with Afghanistan, India and Iran."He said building a peaceful neighbourhood was the cornerstone of foreign policy of the PML-N government which wanted to focus on the agenda of economic development He spoke about intricate challenges faced by the region, including terrorism (particularly the rise of the Islamic State militant group), climate change, economic interdependence and regional and global integration, and called for settlement of regional disputes through "dialogue and political ccommodation".He made a special mention of Pakistan's challenging ties with three immediate neighbours - Afghanistan, Iran and India.Pakistan's relations with Iran, he noted, had begun to improve. Moreover, developments in Afghanistan - political and security transition - and improvements in socio-economic indicators have been promising. Aziz called for an end to external interference in Afghanistan, continuous international economic and financial support and avoidance of the mistakes of the past for safeguarding the "precious moment of hope and optimism in Afghanistan".He saw rise in insurgent activities, narcotics' production and trafficking and corruption and governance as the continuing challenges in Afghanistan. The adviser welcomed China's increased involvement with Afghanistan both at the bilateral and regional planes and said: "Pakistan views this as a welcome development for peace, security, reconciliation and economic progress of Afghanistian ."About India, Mr Aziz said, it had "unfortunately not reciprocated our outreach".He recapped the negative developments in ties with India since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi in last May, including the cancellation of foreign secretaries' talks and Indian ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and Working Boundary."Indian leadership's threats of disproportionate use of force portend India's dangerous desire to create a space for war. This hostile attitude also reveals a clear dichotomy in India's insistence on eliminating terrorism on the one hand and creating distractions for our armed forces engaged in a relentless and non-discriminatory counter-terrorism operation, Zarb-i-Azb, on the other," he observed..Well on one hand Aziz welcomes China's growing interest in Afghanistan on the other he is critical of India's economic aid to Afghanistan. Aziz should know it better than anybody else that four wars between India and Pakistan were thrust by Islamabad which indicates that New Delhi is for peaceful settlement of bilateral issues and for promoting cordial ties with the neighbouring countries.Let Pakistan remain flexible during talks and see the result.(EOM)
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