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| Possibility of Indo- Pak talks remote | | Setback to separatists | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: Ruling PDP, opposition NC and Congress and separatists in Kashmir are one as far as their insistence on Indo-Pak talks on Jammu & Kashmir is concerned. The PDP, the NC and the Congress have been pitching for Indo-Pak talks both within and outside the Legislature since years and separatists leaving no opportunity to bat for the same.
However, the possibility of Indo-Pak talks is too remote with Pakistan going to elect new national assembly this year and India going to the polls next year to elect new Lok Sabha. This is what the reports both from New Delhi and Pakistan on Monday suggested. Reports also suggested that the manner in which both the Indian Army and Border Security Force and Pakistani Army and Pakistani Rangers are acting and retaliating against each other at LoC and International Border have further ended the possibility of Indo-Pak talks.
"The prospects of a breakthrough in efforts to put India-Pakistan relations on an even keel have rarely appeared bleaker in recent decades than they do now - the Line of Control (LoC; effectively the border between the two countries) on fire with near daily clashes, political leaders snipping at each other and peopleto-people contacts virtually snapped. There have been a few tantalizing glimmers of hope - such as the secret meeting between the two National Security Advisers in Thailand last December and a move to free elderly and women prisoners - but experts and officials from both sides are ruling out the possibility of any sustained contacts till 2019, by when both countries will have held general elections," a credible report from New Delhi on Monday said in this regard.
It may be noted that as per the official data, "there were more than 400 ceasefire violations on the Line of Control this year, and January alone, recorded the highest number of violations since the two countries agreed to a truce on the 742-km LoC in 2003". "Troops from both sides have clashed almost every day and Indian Army officers say Pakistan is taking advantage of the lack of snow on mountains to push more terrorists across the LoC to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir," the official data further said.
Expressing concern over the violence, Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti last month had said that "there was no alternative to talks with Pakistan even though India has won all the wars fought by the two sides". But a few days later Home Minister Rajnath Singh had made it loud and clear that "there could be no talks as long as Pakistan backed terrorists". "Talks and terrorism could not go on concurrently," he had said.
Reports from Pakistan in this regard on Monday said: "Pakistan is entering election mode. Though there is a near consensus in Pakistan about peace with India, during the election campaign India will not be a priority and neither the outgoing government nor the interim administration will be competent to start the process," he said. "Once Pakistan completes the process, India will then enter its election phase, which is much longer. During that period it would be more unlikely for such a thing to happen, if the past is an indicator". And a report from New delhi in this regard said: "With Pakistan set to hold a crucial general election within the next three months and polls scheduled in India next year, experts and diplomats in both countries believe there will be no movement in the stalled peace process till late 2019 - largely because the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in Pakistan and the Bharatiya Janata Party in India cannot upset their core domestic constituencies with any overture to the other side".
All in all, it can be said that there is no possibility of talks between the two countries at least till June 2019 and this should be construed as a great setback to Kashmiri leaders, both "mainstream" and separatists. |
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