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| BJP terms India's humiliation its victory | | Delhi talks: In Delhi, Pak says 'Kashmir core issue' | | ET Report
JAMMU, Apr 27: Kashmir remains the "core issue" with India, Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary told his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar as they met on the sidelines of a global conference on Afghanistan in Delhi the other day. The talks continued for about 20 minutes. New Delhi allowed talks between the two Foreign Secretaries or rub salt on the wounds of the Indians, despite the fact that Pakistan hadn't handed over to India the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai and January 2, 2016 Pathankot Airbase terror attacks and notwithstanding the fact that India itself had cancelled talks with Pakistan in the wake of the Pathankot terror attack that left five of our brave soldiers, including a Lt colonel, martyred. No less than Foreign Minister Sushama Swaraj had said that talks and terror couldn't go hand-in-hand and if at all there were talks between the two nations, these would be wholly and solely on terrorism.
A statement from the Pakistan High Commission said: "All outstanding issues, including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, were discussed". "The Foreign Secretary (Chaudhary) emphasized (in his meeting with Jaishankar) that Kashmir remains the core issue that requires a just solution, in accordance with UN resolution and wishes of the Kashmiri people," the statement said. The statement sought to make Kashmiri Muslims a party to the so-called Kashmir dispute and virtually vouched for trilateral talks between Pakistan, India and Kashmiri Muslims and that too at the New Delhi's South Block that houses the offices of Prime Minister and Foreign Ministry.
On the other hand, the spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Office, who issued a statement after the talks to clear the New Delhi's position, only disappointed the nation. His statement didn't say anything about the Indian stand on this and other part of the state. It only talked about terror attacks and said Pakistan was in a denial mode. It only talked about the "early and visible progress on the Pathankot terrorist attack investigation as well as Mumbai case trial in Pakistan". "Pakistan cannot be in denial on the impact of terrorism on the bilateral relationship. Terrorist groups based in Pakistan targeting India must not be allowed to operate with impunity," a statement by the External Affairs Ministry also said after the talk.
Nothing new in what the External Affairs Ministry said. When was the treacherous and exporter of terrorism, Pakistan, not in a denial mode? It always was. It was aggressive and unreasonable in the past, it acted in the same manner on Tuesday and it will do so again and again in the future, as its stand on Jammu and Kashmir is unambiguous. It had said decades ago that Jammu and Kashmir was an unfinished agenda of the partition and it will not mind fighting a "thousand-year-long" war with India to achieve its sinister goal.
It would have been appropriate had the Indian Foreign secretary debunked the claim of his Pakistani counterpart by putting things in perspective or by telling him that the talks will be only on the political future of those areas - PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, which had been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan since 1947 and where the people were up in arms against Islamabad demanding independence and chanting pro-India slogans. That he didn't so and only requested his Pakistani counterpart to expedite probe into the Pathankot attack and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks only showed how directionless is the BJP-led NDA Government's foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan and how unclear is its stand on Jammu and Kashmir, which is legitimately Indian.
It's no wonder that the today's Indian Foreign Ministry's flip flop and lack of consistency evoked a very sharp reaction from the strategic affairs experts, including former Army Commanders. All of them expressed their concern over the New Delhi's approach towards Pakistan and once again asked the Modi Government to understand and recognize the nature of Pakistani state and evolve and implement a definite policy that defeat's Pakistan's game plan that is calculated to hoist Pakistani flag on the ramparts of Red fort. As expected, the BJP spokespersons like Sambit Patra defended the government's flip flop as before and in the process evoked more sharp reactions. He shamelessly said: "India today showed Pakistan the mirror and the talks constituted India's grand victory".
Indeed, the country is in the hands of those who do not know anything about statecraft, foreign policy, military strategy and strategic affairs. How unfortunate! India is in danger. |
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