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| Musharraf follows in footsteps of Bilawal, says Kashmir Pakistan's national interest | | Irresponsible leadership | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 6: Sind province of Pakistan is in turmoil. Bulk of Sindi population is fed up with the Punjabi domination over the Pakistani polity and economy. It wants an independent status for Sind. Balochistan is up in arms against Islamabad. It wants independence. North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is also in ferment. The situation in Punjab, Pakistan's largest province and which dominates Pakistan's National Assembly, is also far from normal. It is known for Shia-Sunni clashes, Punjabi Sunni-Sarakai clashes and other sectarian clashes. The fact is that sectarian and ethnic strife has engulfed Pakistan.
The economy of Pakistan is also in a shambles. The democratically-elected government of Pakistan is just powerless. Pakistani Prime Minister has no say whatever in the military and foreign policies. Mian Nawaz Sharf is just a Prime Minister in name. There are ministers in his government, but they and the Prime Minister are mortally afraid of the army and the ISI. The fact of the matter is that Pakistan and Pakistani institutions are crumbling and there are opinion leaders who opine that the Pakistani state may not survive. It will further split, they say, and very rightly. But the Pakistani leaders, instead of doing something to avert the impeding disaster in Pakistan, are raking up the Kashmir issue, which they very well know was resolved way back in 1947.
Some of them have even crossed all the lines. For example, on September 20, Bilwal Bhutto, son of former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP), had behaved and spoken like mad persons behave and speak. His body language left none in any doubt that Bilawal Bhutto was not a good shape. A streak of despondency, desperation and frustration was visible on his face and it was also clear that he was dying for some publicity so that he could tell the Pakistanis that he was very much active in the country's political arena. Like other frustrated Pakistani politicians and terrorists, he also raked up the so-called Kashmir issue only to make a fool of himself.
"Lavvan ge, lavvan ge, Kashmir, pura Kashmir, Pakistan ka Kashmir, lavvan ge" (I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan), Bilawal, in his 20s, said at Islamabad while addressing PPP workers. Two former Pakistan Premiers and PPP leader Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf were also present. The Indian response was what it should have been: India thought it below its dignity to respond to what the mad PPP leader, Bilawal Bhutto, said. A junior Indian Foreign Office's one-line response was to the effect that Jammu & Kashmir was, is and shall ever remain integral part of India. "We are in the process of looking forward and looking forward does not mean that our borders will be changed. We made it very clear that as far as we are concerned, the integrity and unity of India is non-negotiable," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said. Bilawal's remarks were "far from reality which takes us back into the past century," he also said.
Interestingly, the Bilawal Bhutto's uncalled for Kashmir rant did not evoke any response whatsoever from Kashmir itself. No a single Kashmiri separatist spoke a word. The indifference of Kashmiri separatists to what Bilawal Bhutto said was an indication that nobody in Kashmir takes him seriously.
Very significantly, no Kashmiri separatist reacted one way or the other even to what former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said about Kashmir during his interview with a TV channel at Islamabad. Musharraf, who had been trying his level best to cultivate the Pakistani Army so that he could escape punishment for various charges, including the charges of sedition and murder, spoke the language of the Pakistani Army and shamelessly said that New Delhi was responsible for the recent violations of ceasefire and international border. "Don't test our patience and resolve. Kashmir is Pakistan's national interest. Kashmir is Pakistan's. There should be no doubt about it. Kashmir runs in the jugular vein of Pakistan," the under-trial Musharraf said on October 5.
New Delhi has also ignored what the irrelevant Musharraf said to gain sympathy. It's good strategy. Why should strong and pulsating-with-a-renewed-vigour New Delhi respond to the Pakistani non-sense? We are strong enough to defend our position at any international forum and the recent example is the role of New Delhi in the United Nations General Assembly.
It needs to be underlined that Pakistan has been trying to grab Jammu & Kashmir since 1947 and has waged four full-fledged war and one low-intensity proxy war to achieve its ulterior goal, but with no result. On the contrary, India has split Pakistan into two independent nations. New Delhi can create many new nations out of the existing Pakistan. There should be no doubt about it. Pakistan also knows it, but it will not acknowledge it for obvious reasons. The fact of the matter is that Pakistan is in a mode of self-destruction.
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