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| UN has almost washed its hands | | J&K issue? | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 1: United Nations (UN) Secretary General (SG), Antonio Guterres, has, it appears, washed his hands of making any further efforts to promote a dialogue between India and Pakistan that would pave the way for the resolution of the so-called Kashmir dispute that has been causing tensions between the two nuclear nations. India considers J&K as its integral part and very rightly. Pakistan says J&K is a disputed territory and it should have become part of Pakistan as it was a Muslim-majority state willfully ignoring the fact that J&K was not part of the partition plan as it was a princely state and that it for the ruler of the state to decide the fate of his state which he did decide by acceding it to India on October 26, 1947 in terms of the constitutional law on the subject.
Reports from New York suggest that "Antonio Guterres is under great pressure from India not to get involved on Kashmir", that "India's strategic relations with the United States also strengthen New Delhi's voice and the role at the UN", that "the Indians don't want any UN or outside meddling in the Kashmir dispute and have been unsuccessfully trying to take it off the agenda of the Security Council".
It was on January 18, when asked at his new year press conference about "his failure to promote a dialogue between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to settle their outstanding disputes", the UN chief had only said: "I've been offering my good offices in relation to the dialogue between the two countries that, until now, had no conditions of success".
Even when India was outraged in the wake of the Feb 14 Pulwama attack, the UN General Secretary Gutteres only called for restraint on both sides, saying "his good offices were available - knowing fully well that India won't accept the offer".
Letter after letter from Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, urging the UN chief to "play a role in defusing the escalating tensions" stemming from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's threats to teach Pakistan a lesson also failed to evoke any response from the latter. And Pakistan's supporters said: "It's disappointing. The inaction on part of UN makes it look bad".
It is to be noted that over the years, Indian diplomats have been campaigning to delete the 'K' word from UN documents and to prevent any discussion on J&K in various international fora, leaving Pakistan the only country to raise the issue. There was a time when more than a dozen countries used to speak in support of the so-called "Kashmiris' right to self-determination after the Kashmir issue was raked up by Pakistan in the annual sessions of the UN General Assembly. But that has virtually become a story of the past.
All in all, it can be said that the Indian diplomacy is clicking and Pakistan is getting isolated with each passing day. |
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