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| PM Manmohan Singh disappoints the nation | | J&K in UN General Assembly | |
Neha
JAMMU, Sept 29: Yesterday, the rattled and isolated PM Manmohan Singh addressed the UN General Assembly and spoke on the Indian stand on the problems facing the world and stated that J&K is an integral part of India and that India will never compromise the territorial integrity of India. He also talked about terrorism and raised his fingers against Pakistan directly and indirectly. (AICC vice president and his men revolted against the PM on Friday and expressed no-confidence in him saying his actions were complete non-sense.) The naïve would surely appreciate his address. Indeed, he made some candid and definite statements which deserve appreciation.
But it has to be underlined that he did not counter what his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif said at the same international forum a day before. On Friday, Sharif had interfered in the internal affairs of India and urged New Delhi to grant the right to self-determination to the people of Jammu & Kashmir so that they could decide their political future once for all. Sharif had, in fact, attacked India and accused New Delhi of suppressing the aspirations of the people of the state and had told the UN General Assembly that the aspirations of the people of the state cannot be brushed aside. The determined and unambiguous Pakistani Prime Minister sought the intervention of the UN General Assembly so that the Kashmir issue could be resolved as per the aspirations of Pakistan and its agents inKashmir.
PM Manmohan Singh was required to counter his Pakistani counterpart using the relevant UN resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir, especially the August 13, 1948 resolution. TheAugust 13 resolution had unequivocally directed Pakistan to vacate the aggression and said the Indian forces would maintain law and order in the areas to be vacated. The resolution did say that a plebiscite could be organized in Jammu & Kashmir but it was subjected to the condition that there was perfect peace in the state after Pakistan vacated the aggression. PM Manmohan Singh should have referred to what was provided in the said UN resolution, but he didn't. By not referring to the conditions laid down by the UN resolution, he indirectly gave respectability to the Pakistan's age-old misinformation campaign.
There is no doubt that PM Manmohan Singh once again disappointed the nation. In fact, the nation never expected that our Prime Minister would call the Pakistani bluff and ask the international community to see through the sinister game plan of Pakistan which had been bleeding India and at the same time seeking to shake hand with it. Believe it or not, but the fact is that think-tanks in Pakistan were, and are, highly appreciative of PM Manmohan Singh and have been expressing the view that left to Manmohan Singh, the Kashmir issue would have been settled long time back. The very fact that think tanks in Pakistan are appreciative of Manmohan Singh should clinch the whole issue and establish that there was much that was undesirable in his approach as far the Indian interests were concerned. |
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