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| Manmohan Singh displays political flexibility | | Indo-Pak talks to be resumed | | (News Analysis)
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 29:There is reason for the Kashmiri separatists to be happy.There is reason for the leadership of the National Conference and the PDP to be satisfied.What is that reason ?India and Pakistan have decided to resume the bilateral dialogue.
This is what the separatists wanted.This what the Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,had demanded. This is what the PDP patron,Mufti Mohd. Sayeed, has been clamouring for.
There are others in the state, including those belonging to the BJP, the Panthers Party, Shiv Sena, VHP and others who feel that people in India has been let down by Delhi having agreed to resume the composite dialogue without securing any assurance from Islamabad on India's demand for adequate measures for preventing the soil of Pakistan being used for exporting terroism to Jammu and Kashmir and for strict action against the perpetrators of Mumbai mayhem.If during a meeting between Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC meet at Thimpu on Thursday the Indian Prime Minister agreed to resume the bilateral talks what purpose Delhi achieved by stalling the composite dialogue for over 15 months ?
There is only one positive aspect behind India's nod to the resumption of the dialogue.Manmohan Singh has agreed to make a fresh beginning at the foreign ministry level talks. Nothing beyond this. Reports indicate that the Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, had assured Manmohan Singh that Islamabad had decided to continue its military operations against the terrorists and legal action would be initiated against those India believes are responsible for Mumbai attacks. Reports said that Gilani also explained to Manmohan Singh certain legal hitch being experienced by Islamabad while trying to deal against Lashkar Chief, Hafiz Mohd.Saeed.It is after this assurane that the Indian Prime Minister agreed to resume the dialogue indicating that Manmohan Singh displayed political flexibility while dealing with an unfriendly neighbour.
The outcome of the Thimpu meet has belied fears expressed in various circles in Pakistan.Reports from Islamabad said that political pundits and
politicians in Pakistan had fears that India was opposed to the resumption of the composite dialogue on the plea that the Madhuri Gupta incident had been blown out of proportion simply to create an atmosphere in which the possibilities of resuming the bilateral talks were remote.Reports said that Islamabad had come to believe that Madhuri Gupta espionage case was brought to the surface at a time when the two sides were to explore the possibility of reviving the stalled dialogue.
Reports said that Gilani had implored Manmohan Singh to give his nod for the resumption of the bilateral talks. Soon after the composite dialogue was st alled following the Mumbai carnage Islamabad has been, since then, requesting Delhi for r esumping the dialogue. And this time Man-mohan Singh obliged Pakistan without granting any concession because while agreeing to revive the dialogue he wanted Isla-mabad to be firm against terrorists.
Now that India has agreed to resume the dialogue it is upto Islamabad to ensure that the proposed talks reach some logical conclusion.If Islamabad continued to aid terrorism,throw spanners in the power generation projects in Jammu and Kashmir under the cover of Indus Water Treaty and avoid taking firm action against those terrorists and their patrons named by India the proposed talks may hit the roadblock again.In the interests of talks Islamabad should desist from dishing out statements describing the turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir not a terrorist struggle but an indigenous movement.
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