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Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired All Party Meeting of J&K leaders in New Delhi on Thursday, Pakistan was left dumbfounded and had to eat humble pie.
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan issued a warning on June 19, saying that it will oppose any move by India to “divide” or change the demography of Kashmir.
In an official statement issued by Pakistan’s foreign office, the country’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that India must refrain from taking any “further illegal steps” in Kashmir after its actions of August 5, 2019.
However, as the talks began in New Delhi on the scheduled date and time, it was silence all across the Pakistani media as well as in the close quarters of the country. The leaders in a straightforward manner put forth their views on the issues pertaining to the overall functioning of the erstwhile state. What Pakistan was left with was only regret and remorse. “PM Modi has shot two birds with a single stone.
On one hand, he has taken into confidence the entire political spectrum of Jammu and Kashmir, has listened to its views and shown an assiduous approach. On the other hand, the Prime Minister has given a clear message to Pakistan that its rhetoric has no takers and that it is business as usual here,” says a Jammu based senior political analyst.
A Kashmiri political leader shared the similar views. According to him in spite of the fact that Pakistan was striving hard to meddle in Kashmir affairs through one way or the other but the fact remains that it has lost the Locus Standi here.
“The meeting was going to take place between the Kashmir’s mainstream leaders and Prime Minister. One really fails to understand what Pakistan had to do with it. Why it had to issue a statement that was aimed to becoming a spoilsport in the entire process.
This is irrational,” said the leader, adding that the main aim for such a statement was to foil the talks and give it a different color.
After the meeting, the PM tweeted that his government was looking to conduct polls in the region soon “so that J&K gets an elected government”.
PM Modi called the meeting “an important step ... towards a developed and progressive Jammu & Kashmir”. His aide and Home Minister Amit Shah said an exercise to fix boundaries of constituencies and elections were “important milestones in restoring statehood, as promised in Parliament”.
After the meeting Pakistan was left dumbfounded to the core with no issue in hand and no agenda in mind. |
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