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| Amazingly Pak seeks US mediation on Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 16: Notwithstanding the fact that Islamabad opted for playing down the execution of Parliament attack convict, Mohd. Afzal Guru, it has started seeking international intervention in settling the Kashmir issue. Infact Islamabad has begun using the breezy turmoil in the Kashmir valley over the execution of Guru as the basis for its repeated plea to Washington besides the UNO for resolving the Kashmir issue.
Possibly Pakistan Government believes that it was time to strike when the iron is hot and it believes that Guru's execution had given birth to fresh wave of anti-India sentiments in the Valley where even the separatists had lost their nerves after the State had witnessed marked decline in the level of militancy related activities and violence. What seems to have disheartened Islamabad and those agencies that have been acting as handlers of militant operations in Jammu and Kashmir has been the unprecedented drop in the rate of infiltration of militants into Jammu and Kashmir.
This situation developed after the Indian troops, guarding the LOC and the IB, further upgraded the border management by plugging even the unconventional ingress routes. And during the last 24 hours the situation in the Valley has registered unexpected improvement with clear signs that the current strife was not going to be as ferocious and a prolonged affair as was the case during the summer of 2010. This also may have upset Islamabad which has started harping on UN mediation for settling the Kashmir issue as per the UN resolution of 1948.
Islamabad has slightly succeeded in convincing the international opinion about the gravity of the situation. And in the wake of tension in Kashmir following the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru, the UN Chief, Gen. Ban ki Moon while watching closely the situation in the region has stressed on the need for dialogue to help to overcome difficulties. "The Secretary-General is obviously following developments quite closely. And we would simply reiterate the call for the need for dialogue to help to overcome the difficulties that there are," Ban's spokesperson Martin Nesirky has stated. While finding that the UN is not in a mood to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir, Islamabad has focussed its eyes on Washington with a plea that the US should help settling the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan's ambassador to US, Sherry Rehman has urged Washington to help resolve the 65-year-old Kashmir dispute. Rehman seems to have given a new angle to the Kashmir issue when said that because of its strategic proximity to both Pakistan and India, the United States is uniquely poised to play a role in the resolution of the dispute which can become a nuclear flashpoint.
It is really amazing that Islamabad has been trying to adopt dual stance. While on one hand it has been pleading for resolving all the issues that have be-devilled the relations between New Delhi and Islamabad through bilateral talks, on the other it has been trying to seek US and the UN intervention in resolving the dispute. And when following the Pakistan sponsored terrorist strike in Mumbai in 2008 New Delhi suspended the bilateral process of dialogue Islamabad not only raised a hue and cry over it but made vehement pleas to India to re-open the channels of dialogue. And India responded simply to give peace another chance.
But New Delhi may no longer tolerate Islamabad's dual policy. Equally distressing for New Delhi is Islamabad's duplicity as far as maintaining the sanctity of ceasefire agreement is concerned. At times India is left with no alternative but to go slow with the process of dialogue because on one had it has been favouring peaceful negotiations and on the other it has been responsible for repeated ceasefire violations on the LOC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir which in recent days had triggered a fresh wave of tension between the two sides. It is hoped that Washington and UN headquarters take cognisance of the wavering attitude of Islamabad. |
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