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Pak, Kashmir: PM under attack for his flip-flops
5/28/2016 11:44:39 PM
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JAMMU, May 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who completed two years in office on May 26, is under attack. The entire opposition, and even its ally Shiv Sena, have trained guns at him and said that his rule was not inspiring and that he followed policy towards Pakistan which was inconsistent and not guided by the country's geo-political interests. They have said all the neighbouring countries have become hostile towards India after Narendra Modi took over as Prime Minister.
The opposition, especially the Congress said: "Let us begin with the neighbourhood, Pakistan, which is where any government must act with the greatest caution and sensitivity to balance our national interests with regional circumstances beyond our control. Since Modi's swearing in-a pageant of sorts that saw the premiers of Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan in attendance and which was lauded as the grand inauguration of a new chapter in our international relations-India's ties with Pakistan have witnessed more ups and downs than a child's yo-yo. The Prime Minister-a man who systematically obstructed the UPA Government's peacemaking efforts with Pakistan and whose campaign speeches thrived on demonizing that country -had excoriated the Congress for 'serving chicken biriyani' to a Pakistani visitor. Now he was exchanging shawls and sarees with his Islamabad counterpart, along with sentimental letters to each other's mothers".
"By inviting Nawaz Sharief to Delhi when he took office, Modi was believed to have turned a historic page, and opened a new era of bilateral relations. But less than two months had passed before both countries were exchanging artillery fire across the still-sensitive border. Talks between our respective foreign secretaries were called off when the Pakistanis proposed meeting Indian Kashmiri separatist leaders on their proposed visit-something our visitors had always done and to which earlier governments had responded with confident official indifference. In November the same year, at the SAARC summit in Nepal, Modi pointedly stared at a brochure to ignore his Pakistani counterpart as he walked past, though it was later revealed that the two leaders had met privately in a hotel suite belonging to an Indian businessman. The pattern repeated itself when late last year Modi made an impromptu visit to Lahore to attend a celebration at Sharief home; a week later relations turned frosty again after seven Indians were killed by Pakistani militants at the Pathankot Air Force Base," the opposition further said.
And what the opposition said was absolutely correct. The fact of the matter is that PM Modi has no clear-cut policy towards Pakistan, as the stand of his government on J&K is ambiguous and disturbing. His government has been dealing with J&K like a state that is virtually independent of India. As a result, both Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists have been exploiting, browbeating and blackmailing New Delhi and slowly but surely creating a situation in the Valley that damages the national interest in the sensitive State of J&K.
Indeed, India-Pakistan relations have since swung back and forth, as though they are determined more by the unpredictable moods of our leadership than on a coherent foreign policy and vision for peace, let alone a practical roadmap. One day the Government declares its "red lines" and twice calls off talks with Pakistan because its representatives met with the Kashmiri-separatist Hurriyat; the next day the red lines don't matter. One day the ruling party avers that talks and terror don't go together and that Pakistan cannot be rewarded with a visit till it makes progress on punishing the perpetrators of 26/11; the next day the PM is winging impulsively to Lahore, sending India's surprised High Commissioner scurrying (too late) to the airport to receive his boss. This is foreign policy by whim, not by design.
It is a matter of grave concern that the Modi Government is not prepared to learn from its past mistakes and that the ministers like Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj and the BJP as a party are defending PM Modi and his foreign policy, which actually is based on the principle of retreat and surrender. Rajnath Singh, for example, on Friday told a news channel that New Delhi's foreign policy towards Pakistan is the best policy and that we will go to any extent to befriend Islamabad. He didn't say that New Delhi will ask Pakistan to vacate its aggression in Gilgit Baltistan and POJK.
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