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| India baffled by Pakistan's lateral thinking | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: It will not be wrong if Pakistan is blamed for lateral thinking as far as the Kashmir issue is concerned. It is so because the successive Governments in Islamabad have been coining new expressions, framing new ideas, recreating new ways for solving the Kashmir issue.
Infact Islamabad is so much obsessed with the Kashmir issue that it thinks its all political, economic and security related problems will end the day Kashmir becomes part of Pakistan. And to browbeat those who convey to Islamabad that Kashmir is non-negotiable Pakistani leaders have been heard repeating, beyond human tolerance, that Kashmir is its life-line.
And right from 1948 onwards whenever the establishment in Islamabad finds its going tough it raises the Kashmir issue. And if the going is still tough it does not lack the technique of dishing out threats to India. After having entered into the nuclear club Islamabad has even gone to the extent of threatening to use nuclear weapons against India as was done by former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf.
And of late the Government headed by Nawaz Sharif has started indulging in lateral thinking by favouring bilateral dialogue today and triangular talks the next day.First thing during his recent visit to Washington Nawaz Sharif raised the demand for a third-party intervention or mediation on Kashmir despite knowing that India has been consistently opposed to it.
And Pakistan's shift from bilateral to trilateral talks was manifest on Thursday when its Foreign office said that it was committed to the bilateral process with India to address the Kashmir issue but would "always" be open to third party mediation.
"Pakistan has been committed to the bilateral process with India to address this (Kashmir) matter as part of the composite dialogue process," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Chaudhry has said.Pakistan hoped that India will "engage with us in a meaningful dialogue to resolve" the issue, he has said. . The US said there had not been an "iota of change" in its policy on Kashmir, which was a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan.
Now that Washington and London have opposed Islamabad's demand for third-party mediation Nawaz Sharif has given yet another twist to the story by favouring triangular talks.He has said that bilateral talks could help the two sides to solve various issues other than the Kashmir dispute but as far as the Kashmir issue was concerned it could find a durable solution if Kashmiris too were involved in the parleys.
Does he mean representatives of people of Kashmir only ? If he does so he seems to forget that if he treats Kashmiris as party to the dispute he has to give the same status to the people in the regions of Ladakh and Jammu.Assuming that by Kashmiris he means representatives of people of Kashmir he should spell out in clear terms as to who can represent people in the triangular talks.
And if he treats separatists as representatives of people of Kashmir he should,first of all,establish their representative character because except Syed Ali Shah Geelani no senior separatist leader has contested any Assembly election.And if Nawaz Sharif means genuine representatives of people of Kashmir he has to involve senior legislators belonging to NC,PDP, Congress,BJP and Panthers Party in the triangular dialogue.
Apart from its lateral thinking Islamabad has been playing hide and seek with India as far as resolving various issues through talks are concerned.Whenever bilateral talks indicate some progress they get derailed by Pak sponsored militancy related violence.It has been happening since 2008 Mumbai mayhem.And the latest events hardly denote any change.While seekng resumption of dialogue Pak troops resorted to repeated ceasefire violations on the LOC and the IB and their support to militants for infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir has been already established.These events are bound to derail the peace process notwithstanding Islamabad's clamour for peaceful negotiations. |
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