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| US trying to mediate on Kashmir | | | It does not befit the world's only headmaster, the US Government, to say one thing today and another on the next day regarding the Kashmir issue. The US state Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, stated the other day that the US Government has no plan for appointing a special envoy to deal with Kashmir issue. Kelly has made it clear that the US is for more dialogue between Delhi and Islamabad. In fact the American President, Barack Obama, has urged both India and Pakistan to move forward and resolve the bilateral problems through sustained dialogue. And the way the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has explained the Government's stand on the issue on the floor of the Lok Sabha should have removed any misgivings in any quarter in the world. Manmohan Singh has expressed India's willingness to meet Pakistan "more than half way" if Islamabad took strong and effective and sustained measures against the terrorists. Right from the day pressure was being mounted on India to resume dialogue with Pakistan Delhi has made it clear that let Pakistan show results while carrying out operations against the terrorists so that its soil was not used for exporting terrorism to the Indian states, including Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of telling Delhi to resume dialogue with Islamabad the American Government should have mounted pressure on Pakistan to check all terrorist activities in the country. Even while the US Government is in favour of resumption of Indo-Pakistan dialogue the US under secretary of State, William Burns, has created a fresh controversy by saying that the Government of India should take into account wishes of people of Kashmir. In fact he has tried to make the UN resolution on Kashmir relevant when the United Nations has already declared that its resolution had become irrelevant. Burns seem to have followed the old biased approach when he says wishes of Kashmiris should be taken into account. Assuming that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India is not valid is it not then necessary to take into account the wishes of people of all the three regions, Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. And if the wishes of the people of all the three regions were taken into account one would find that except for a section of people in the valley the majority of the masses are for further integration of the state in the Indian union. By wavering its stand on the issue the US Government may complicate the matter instead of resolving it.(By sending Burns and Robert Blake to Delhi for talks with the Indian leaders America is trying to mediate on Kashmir indirectly.
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