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| Will NAM countries oblige PoK Premier? | | India, Pak to resume Foreign Secretary-level talks | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 12: Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan are quite likely to be resumed either towards the end of this month or during the first week of October. According to authoritative sources, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, wants the new Foreign Secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon, to carry forward the stalled dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart.
India's Foreign Office expects the possible resumption of Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two countries after Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh's meeting with Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on the margins of the NAM summit in Havana later this week. This would be Manmohan Singh's fourth meting with Gen. Musharraf after tyeir two metings in New York and one in New Delhi in 2005.
If the results of the talks between the two leaders were positive and productive, then it could be followed by the resumption of the stalled Foreign Secretary-level talks. A round of anticipated Foreign Secretary-level talks was called off in the immediate aftermath of the July serial blasts in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Pakistan ocupied Kashmir (PoK), Attique Ahmed Khan, has called for the 'help" from the NAM countries for restarting the Indo-Pakistan peace process. In an interesting move ahead of Gen. Musharraf's meeting with Indian Prime Minister on the margins of NAM summit in Havana later this week, Attique Khan released advertisements in different Pakistani newspapers on Tuesday (September 12). And through these advertisements he sought the "help" from the 116-member NAM countries to "re-start the stalled South Asian peace proces to evolve a tension free environment in this region".
Attique Khan's advertisements, in fact, elaborated that a tension free environment is required for "a final settlement of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of people of Jammu and Kashmir". Attique Khan, whose Muslim Conference Party won the Assembly polls in Pakistan occupied Kashmir recently amid allegations of rigging and malpractices as well as patronage from the government, has once again backed Gen. Musharraf's proposals to resolve the Kashmir issue.
The PoK Prime Minister said that Pakistan as a sovereign party to the "dispute" forwarded "liberal proposals for a peaceful settlement". The proposals forwarded by Gen. Musharraf "suggests the demilitarising of Jammu and Kashmir, introducing self governance there and undertaking joint management of the state of Jammu and Kashmir," he said. Attique Khan's verdict: "This proposal in fact constitutes a benchmark, an interim measure to proceed on seeking final solution".
Attique Khan, who accompanied Gen. Musharraf on Monday on a visit to Brussels, also urged "summit leaders to send a goodwill mission to the disputed State of Jammu and Kashmir as part of their moral, political and diplomatic obligation". |
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