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| A decision that has rattled Kashmiri leaders | | No to SAARC Summit | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 28: Pressure from the below is working. The Modi Government at the Centre has been left with no other option but to act and show the results on the ground. The last three days have witnessed hectic activities in New Delhi, all suggesting that the powers-that-be in New Delhi were working overtime to adopt a measure or slew of measures which could, on the one hand, assuage the hurt feeling of the wounded Indian nation and, on the other, bring Pakistan to India's knees.
If one day, the Modi Government talks about Indus Water Treaty under which Pakistan gets over 80 per cent of the Indus waters, the very next day, it indicated that it could withdraw from Pakistan the Most Favoured Nation status New Delhi granted to it unilaterally in 1996. Not just this, it was also decided that a high-powered meeting would be held on September 29 with the Prime Minister chairing it and the agenda of the meeting would be to withdraw or not to withdraw the MFN status from Pakistan.
But one concrete step that New Delhi took on Tuesday was its decision to boycott the forthcoming SAARC Summit in Pakistan in November. New Delhi declared that India will not take part in the SAARC Summit. Significantly, Afghanistan and Bangladesh also supported the Indian line and declared Pakistan a terrorist state with which it was impossible to work.
It is this decision of the Government of India that has rattled Kashmiri leaders of all shades of opinion. They had been expecting that the ongoing violent movement in Kashmir would force New Delhi to concede something substantial to Kashmiri separatists and semi-separatists, but that has not happened. Nor is it going to happen in the foreseeable future. For, the situation in the country is such. No government can afford to overlook the national mood, which wants a definite action against Pakistan and which is also not in favour of conceding any concession whatsoever to Kashmiri separatists or otherwise.
The developments which have been unfolding in New Delhi have also made the minorities in the state to heave a sigh of relief. The reasons are not far to seek. They see in the deadlock between India and Pakistan over Kashmir their safety and security. |
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