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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 22: Former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who repeatedly bungled while handling Pakistan, has made a very significant revelation and at a time when the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre has been pursuing a weak-kneed policy vis-a-vis Pakistan and Indian J&K.
The revelation of Khurshid may motivate the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre to abandon its Pakistan and J&K policy that has unnerved the entire nation, with more concerned among the Indians opining that the BJP may sign away J&K.
The Modi Government has taken a complete U-turn on its stand that talks and terror could not go hand-in-hand and declared that New Delhi will not suspend or call off talks with Pakistan even if the provocations are grave or even if some "saboteurs" play mischief aimed at stalling the ongoing dialogue process between the two nations. The dialogue process will be "uninterrupted", the Modi Government has said, adding that the dialogue process that it started with Pakistan will "change the history".
Salman Khurshid in his new book 'The Other Side of The Mountain' has claimed that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif that "no Indian PM could sign away" J&K. A national daily reported today in New Delhi.
In a chapter called "The Pakistan Puzzle", Salman Khurshid has recalled a meeting between Singh and Sharif in late September 2013, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, when the Indian PM reportedly told his Pakistani counterpart: "Mian Saheb, no Indian Prime Minister can sign away Kashmir, and nor can I. Subject to that, the sky is the limit."
Khurshid has also said that the "UPA-II Government tried to push peace talks with Pakistan, despite the 2008 Mumbai attacks that made 'business as usual' very difficult". Besides, he has referred to the Sharm-el-Sheikh meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the then his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani. Referring to this controversial meeting on July 16, 2009, he has said that it was "a sincere attempt to take things forward after the Mumbai attacks" but the BJP created a 'merry stink' over the issue".
The Indian nation had condemned the Sharm-el-Sheikh. The BJP too had lambasted the Congress for the Sharm-el-Sheikh Indo-Pak joint declaration. "It was a complete sell-out," the BJP had said. What had shocked the nation and the so-called nationalist BJP was the decision on the part of the Congress to resume the stalled talks process with Pakistan and a reference to the Indian involvement in Baluchistan.
Now that Salman Khurshid has made a significant revelation that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Pakistan Prime Minister "Mian Saheb, no Indian Prime Minister can sign away Kashmir, and nor can I. Subject to that, the sky is the limit", it is hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would review his whole stand on J&K and, like Manmohan Singh, tell Mian Nawaz Sharif that he cannot sign away J&K. |
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