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| Attempts afoot to sabotage Indo-Pak parleys | | | One should not feel surprised if the militancy related violence graph registers an upward curve in the near future.In fact incidents of violence here and there have started multiplying.Again one should not feel amazed if the Pakistani troops are found violating over seven year long ceasefire on the LOC or on the Intgernational Border.In reality these violations have started robbing the border villages of its peace and tranquility.The Pakistani Rangers pounded seven BSF checkposts in village Abdullian in R.S.Pora sector in Jammu the other day.It was after over seven years that bullets hit some houses in the village.Two days earlier the Pakistani troops had opened fire from across Mendhar sector in which one Indian trooper was killed.During the last two months the border situation in Jammu and Kashmir has started getting tense with intermittent firing or IED explosions.Well two factors are being held responsible for the breezy trouble.One is that the
Pakistani troops or the Rangers have been peeved over the way the Indian troops and the BSF have upgraded their security grid on the IB and on the LOC.The Pakistani troops have found it difficult to push groups of militants into Jammu and Kashmir because of strengthening of the border management following reports that groups of militants had managed to sneak into the state during the last three to four months.Secondly,the Pakistani Rangers have felt upset over the change in the border alignment on the IB and over the setting up of additional nakas for making it very difficult for the militants to cross into the Indian territory.Yes,these are the main factors for a slight kick up in the level of violence.But the basic reason is the displeasure of the Army in Pakistan,which decides the country's foreign policy,particularly with regard to India and Afghanistan,over the upcoming talks between the Home Minister of the two countries,the foreign secretaries of
India and Pakistan and later between the two foreign ministers.Reports do indicate that a section in the Army in Pakistan besides the ISI do not want the bilateral parleys to succeed.Past experience has shown that whenever the stage is set for bilateral talks it is preceded by major terror attacks.When India invited Pakistan Foreign secretary,Salman Bashir,to Delhi for February 25 talks with his counterpart,Nirupama Rao, 11 days before the talks were to begin there was a major terror attack in Pune.On the basis of this analogy that Pakistani agencies kick up trouble to sabotage the peace process or parleys between Delhi and Islamabad one can say that the graph of violence may witness sharp upward curve because besides the preliminary discussion between Salman Bashir and Nirupama Rao the Indian Home Minister,P.C.Chidambaram,is scheduled to visit Islamabad on June 26 for talks with his counterpart.This is to be followed by the much awaited talks between
the Indian Foreign Minister,S.M.Krishna,and his counterpart,Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad on July 15.In the light of these developments one does not feel optimistic about the outcome of the ensuing bilateral talks.Indeed India has demonstrateed flexibiliy when it broke the 15 month long ice by inviting Pakistan Foreign Secretary to Delhi for talks.There was neither any compulsion nor any reason for Delhi for resuming talks,if not the composite dialogue,becauase there has not been any positive response from Islamabad to the dosier on Mumbai attack which Delhi had submitted to Islamabad on three occasions.Islamabad had not conceded Delhi's demand for demolishing the terror infrastructure in Pakistan.It had not taken any adequate steps for preventing the soil of Pakistan from being used for exporting terror to Jammu and Kashmir and to other Indian states.Experts say that the activities of separatists,especially their knack of inciting people to take to
the streets in Kashmir for indulging in violence,are also part of the process of sabotaging the India-Pakistan dialogue process.(eom) |
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