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| Pakistan again interferes in internal affairs of India | | Status of Jammu & Kashmir | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 28: Pakistan on March 27 again interfered in the internal affairs of India and at a time when the election campaign across the country is in full swing. Obviously, it chose the opportunity to vitiate the election scene in the state in general and Jammu province in particular where the people are participating in the election rallies in large numbers and preparing themselves for the D-day. Pakistan perhaps believes that the people of the state would stay away from the election process. This is not going to happen. Not only the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region, the people of Kashmir too will take part in the electoral exercise in large numbers. It was none other than the spokesperson of Pakistan Foreign Office Tasnim Aslam who spoke for her country and sought to muddy the Indian waters in the state. She shamelessly said Kashmir was not an internal affair of India and is one of the oldest disputes on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) agenda.
"Kashmir was not an internal affair of India. It is one of the oldest disputes on UNSC agenda," she said during her weekly briefing in Islamabad.
She also said UN has an observer mission here - United Nations Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). "The Under Secretary General of UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations recently visited Pakistan and he also went to the Line of Control. So, there is no denying the fact that it is an internationally recognized dispute". Not only this, she also reiterated Pakistan's stand on what she called Kashmir dispute and asked New Delhi to start negotiations with Islamabad for the "resolution" of all outstanding issues, including Jammu and Kashmir.
Tasnim Aslam even went to the extent of saying that Islamabad wants the international community to "convince India for resumption of composite dialogue" and added that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his recent statement clarified that Pakistan wants to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue with India through dialogue process but India is reluctant to do so. "Common friends like United States should force India to come to the negotiating table to resolve the dispute...The choice the two countries have is to move like other regions towards developing good neighborly relations, forging economic ties, increasing people to people contact so that the people in this region can benefit from regional trade, economic cooperation and connectivity. People in region also deserve to reap the benefits of economic cooperation. It is, therefore, important that Pakistan and India resolve this dispute through dialogue," she said.
Significantly, she also referred to what BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi said at Hiranagar on March 26 during his maiden Bharat Vijay Rally, which was a massive affair by any yardstick considering the fact that Hiranagar is a small border town with a population of less than ten thousand. At the rally, Modi had talked about three AKs - AK-47, A K Antony (Defence Minister) and AK-49 (Arvind Kejriwal resigned as Chief Minister after holding this office for 49 days.) Modi had said the AKs were making headlines in Pakistan and dubbed Antony and Kejriwal as Pakistani agents. Reacting to the Modi's statement, she said: "It is unfortunate that Pakistan becomes an issue during the election campaign in India.
You know that this is elections season in India and unlike Pakistan where India is not an election issue, in India, Pakistan becomes an election issue unfortunately," Aslam said. What she said was a white lie. The election manifestos of all political parties in Pakistan had talked about Kashmir to garner votes.
She says Jammu and Kashmir is not an internal issue of India. Indeed, Jammu and Kashmir is an internal issue of India and the only issue which still remains to be resolved between the two countries is the political future of POJK. The Indian Parliament has adopted three unanimous resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir reiterating the nation's stand that Jammu and Kashmir was, is and shall ever remain an integral part of India and that its accession to India was legal, constitutional and as per the constitutional law on the subject. The Maharaja of the State was the only competent authority to take a decision on the state's political future. He took this decision on October 26, 1947 and merged the state with India. It is a different matter that the Congress-led successive Governments at the centre never protected the sovereign interests of the country and allowed Pakistan to poke its dirty nose in the internal affairs of India. As far as the Indian nation is concerned, it has no doubt whatsoever about the political status of Jammu and Kashmir and its stand is that it will take back from Pakistan the occupied territories of the state and reintegrate them into India. The Indian nation as it is and it means business. |
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