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| Kashmir: India facing isolation at international level | | STARK REALITY | |
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 5: All is not well with those managing the Indian foreign policy. There are instances and instances that show that those whose duty it is to protect and advance furthers the country’s geo-political interests have utterly failed to discharge their obligations towards the country. On the contrary, there are innumerable glaring examples that suggest that New Delhi is retreating and retreating at an alarming speed, that it has no foreign policy of its own, that foreign powers are dictating terms to New Delhi, that New Delhi has no friends who could defend Indian standpoints, that it is facing isolation at the international level and that slowly but surely the Indian state is becoming a banana republic.
The level of Indian isolation at international level can be gauged from what Finland Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told New Delhi in New Delhi itself on Tuesday (May 4). He is on a two-day visit to India. Commenting on the Kashmir issue, he said, “I think in an issue like Kashmir, it’s obviously quite clear that you have two parties, at least, and it is thus takes two to tango. But if a bilateral solution has not been found in 60 years, then perhaps other avenues for a solution should be found. In almost all conflicts in this world, if you cannot find a solution among the parties concerned, you would never. It is also quite often true that without mediation from a third party you will never find a solution, I think Kashmir is an example”.
The message the Finland Foreign Minister was loud and clear: Third party mediation to settle the Kashmir issue. This is what the Kashmiri separatists have been suggesting and this is exactly what Islamabad has been saying since years. Though the canny United States, whose single-point agenda all along has been to promote its geo-political interests in across the world and which has been seeking to establish its hegemony over the world, doesn’t talk of third party mediation, it is actually playing the role of a mediator. It has been consistently pressuring India to accommodate the Pakistani viewpoint on Jammu and Kashmir so that Islamabad is able to withdraw its forces from the eastern border and deploy the same near the Afghanistan border to meet the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The managers of Indian foreign policy have failed to resist the American pressure. There should be no doubt about it.
The United States wants New Delhi to dilute its sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir so that Islamabad has a real and effective Controller over the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. It also wants to quit Afghanistan but after handing over the turbulent Kabul to Pakistan. It is an established fact that it was under the American pressure that New Delhi talked with Pakistan at the Bhutanese capital, Thimpu, on April 29, and assured Islamabad, which has been bleeding India on a daily basis with a thousand cuts with a view to annexing Jammu and Kashmir and grabbing the precious Chenab, Indus and Jhelum waters, that New Delhi would continue to talk to Pakistan whatever the situation. In other words, it was under the pernicious American pressure that the Indian leadership virtually reiterated its support to the Sharm-el-Sheikh doctrine: Dialogue and terrorism are two different things; dialogue between the two countries must go on.
It was not a coincidence that the US Under Secretary of State Robert Gates was there at Thimpu, where he made certain categorical statements on the Kashmir issue, including the assertion that the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet later today and that he was hopeful that the outcome of the meeting between the two Prime Ministers would be positive.
The attitude of China towards New Delhi has been no different as far as the resolution of Kashmir issue is concerned. It too, like the United States, wants New Delhi to accommodate the Pakistani viewpoint. Why not? After all, Beijing and Islamabad have been working in unison since decades. Their one-point goal is to harm India and its geo-political interests by creating an environment that helps these two hostile countries to play their nefarious games in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir and the entire Himalayan belt. The nature of relationship between Islamabad and Beijing could be determined from the manner in which the Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi gave a blank cheque to Beijing just a couple of months ago with a view to persuading China to mediate between India and Pakistan.
The fact of the matter is that the United States, China and Pakistan are one as far as their attitude towards India and its Jammu and Kashmir is concerned and that each one of them is working for the Indian disintegration. People may say that Washington and Beijing cannot work together in the South Asian region. But it is a fact that both these countries have been working in tandem since decades. It is, however, intriguing that Islamabad is giving concessions after concessions to Beijing overlooking the fact that China, like the United States, is one country that believes in territorial expansion. Given an opportunity, Beijing would take no time in establishing its stranglehold over Pakistan. (To be continued)
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