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| India has toughened its stand against Pakistan | | | India has toughened its stand as far as resumption of bilateral dialogue with Pakistan is concerned. After Prime Minister rejected demand of Farooq Abdullah and Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, to reopen the channels of talks and in doing so he has refused to meet his Pakistan counterpart in London during the CHOGM. Though Pakistan Prime Minister, Abbasi, had expected to have a meeting with Modi but the latter refused to have talks with Abbasi which may mean acceptance of the demand from Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti. He seems to have felt enraged over the way Pakistan has neither ended export of terror to India, especially to Jammu and Kashmir nor has Islamabad suspended ceasefire violations on the LoC and on the IB in Jammu and Kashmir. In fact whenever there was demand for reopening of talks with Pakistan India had made it clear that first Pakistan should stop export of terror to India and then expect India to resume bilateral dialogue. And the External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj and the Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman followed exactly what Modi had suggested to them and the result was neither Sushma nor Nirmala had meetings with their Pakistani counterparts in China. Modi is expected to reach Beijing shortly where he will have Informal talks with Chinese President, Xi Jinping and these talks may prove result oriented
There will be no bilateral meetings between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with their Pakistan counterparts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ministerial meets to be held in Beijing. There will be no meetings with their Pakistan counterparts, ruling out any planned meetings between the Indian and Pakistani ministers. Swaraj, who arrived Bejing, will take part in the foreign ministers meeting of the SCO to be held on April 24. The same day, Sitharaman will take part the SCO defence ministers meeting. The meetings, which are part of the preparations for the SCO summit to be held in the Chinese city of Qingdao in June, have become prominent as these are the first such meetings after India and Pakistan were admitted into the eight-member group last year. Both events are to be attended by the respective ministers from Pakistan. A host of issues, including that of regional security and counter-terrorism, are expected to figure in the meetings. Relations between India and Pakistan turned frosty after the Pathankot terror attack in January 2016 and another strike by terrorists on an Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir in September that year.
In the light of these two terror attacks India has laid down preconditions which, hitherto, Pakistan has not implemented with the result India has toughened its stand vis-a-vis Pakistan and the way Modi has refused to meet his Pakistan counterpart in London indicates Indian's level of anger against Pakistan. And one of the preconditions was that Pakistan shut all the arms training camps which have turned factories for production of trained militants who are later pushed into Jammu and Kashmir for triggering violence. And a stage has come when trained militants have set up small training camps within Kashmir where local educated youth were being given arms training. This is a sign of worry and the Army commanders had been reviewing the security scenario in Kashmir with the hope that multi-dimensional counter insurgency operations may force militants to given up their guns. The Army harbor hopes while the militants thrive on the fluid political and security situation. |
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