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| Despite Pak wish Delhi may not accept Saudi mediation | | | The establishment in Pakistan seems to be prone to jump to conclusions.An example of this was witnessed the other day when the Pakistan Foreign Minister,Shah Mehmood Qureshi,said that Islamabad would welcome if Saudi Arabia mediated between Pakistan and India.Qureshi's optimism over the intentions of the Saudi Government to mediate between Delhi and Islamabad is the outcome of an invitation the Saudi Foreign Minister had sent to him to visit Riyadh.Qureshi believes that the Saudi Government would like to hold discussions with him in the light of the exchange of ideas between authorities in Riyadh and the Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,during the latters' recent visit.Before one could correct Qureshi the Pakistan Foreign Minister himself did the correction work when in the same breath he said that India may not agree to the Saudi mediation because Delhi had been opposed to any third party mediation.When Shah Mehmood Qureshi knew it that Delhi was
not in favour of any third country mediation he should not have expressed his views on the purpose of being invited to Riyadh.During his visit to Riyadh Manmohan Singh had requested the Saudi leaders to persuade Pakistan to taken adequate steps for ending the menace of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and in other Indian states.The Saudi leaders may convey these very views to Qureshi.In fact Pakistan has been making determined efforts to make India agree on a third country mediation between Delhi and Islamabad,particularly on the vexed Kashmir issue.During the last several years,especially since he rise of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir,Islamabad had been trying to motivate Washington to mediate between India and Pakistan.Delhi has stood by its fixed stand which is against any third country mediation.There had been veiled suggestions from Washington in which the US authorities expressed their interest in mediating between India and Pakistan in the interest of peace and normalcy.Delhi never succumbed to the American pressure.It never agreed to any mediation from any other country.Possibly Delhi has had bitter experiences in the past whenever any third country tried to mediate.Take the case of Tashkent declaration of 1965.The summit meeting between the heads of the Indian and Pakistani Governments had been arranged by the then Soviet leaders.Whatever agreements had been reached between the two sides were later violated by Pakistan.Whatever agreement the two sides had reached at the Shimla summit in 1972 had not been honoured by Islamabad.Apart from these experiences India is the last country that is going to have faith in the stand other countries will take while mediating between Delhi and Islamabad.The experience India got in 1948 when the first Prime Minister,Jawaharlal Nehru,took the issue of Pak invasion on Kashmir in 1947 to the United Nations.Nehru had believed that the UN security Council will pass strictures against Pakistan.Delhi was surprised when the UN security Council kept mum on the invasion but adopted a resolution providing for holding a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir for determining the wishes of the people whet her they want to remain with India or be part of Pakistan.And to this date the separatists,operating in Jammu and Kashmir,and the agencies across the LOC have been swearing by the UN resolution on Kashmir.Even those who favour independence for Kashmir support the implementation of the UN resolution without realising that this resolution does not favour any third option.Delhi may not be totally opposed to a third country mediation if Islamabad took in hand steps that would prevent state or nonstate actors from using the soil of Pakistan for exporting terrorism to India.Delhi wants steps to be taken by Islamabad for ensuring total check on infiltration of militants into Jammu and Kashmir and into other Indian cities. |
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