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Both the United Nations and the US Government have ruled out the possibility of their acting as a mediator between India and Pakistan or resolving the Kashmir issue.A few weeks before he is scheduled to visit India senior functionaries in Washington made it clear that Barack Obama had no intention on mediating between the two sides for resolving the Kashmir issue.These functionaries also made it clear that the US Government treated the Kashmir issue as a bilateral problem between India and Pakistan that required to be settled through bilateral talks.Alongwith this statement,which may have not gone well with the etablishment in Islamabad,the UN Secretary General,Ban Kim-moon has stated that the UN could play the role of a mediator if both India and Pakistan call for it.The top UN functionary made it clear that normally the world body uses its good offices only when the two sides seek it.This way once again the UN authorities have remained silent on the
demand of the Kashmiri separatists and Islamabad that the UN resolution on Kashmir,providing for a plebiscite,be held for determining the wishes of the people of the state.During the over three decades Syed Ali Shah Geelani,who now heads the hardliners among the separatists in the valley,has only one slogan."Grant right of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as has been provided in the UN resolution on Kashmir."No doubt,even after a four month long turmoil in the valley,and after ongoing militancy related violence,which has hit political,security and economic structure of the state,separatists and their supporters are not united on the demand for implementation of the UN resolution as they are in favour of Azadi for the state.In fact the establishment in Islamabad and the separatists in the valley have been trying to persuade and influence Washington and the United Nations on accpeting their demand for either mediating between
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and Islamabad for settling the Kashmir issue or for mounting pressure on India to agree on holding a plebiscite in the state.The latest statements from Ban Ki-moon and senior Government functionaries in Washington have indirectly conveyed to Islamabad that they were not for mediating between the two sides for resolving the Kashmir issue.While repeating the emphasis on the need for settling the issue through bilateral talks both Washington and the UN headquarters seem to have relegated the Kashmiri separatists to the background.Nowhere the UN Secretary General and the senior US Government functionaries have stated that a solution needed to be found to the problem which could satisfy the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir,Pakistan and India.Its very emphasis on the importnce of bilateralism rules out any scope for trilateral talks on Kashmir.Hitheto the separatists have been pleading in favour of triangular parlys in which genuine
representatives of people of Jammu and Kashmir were involved in the talks between Pakistan and India.This way only two options are left for the Kashmiri separatists.Either they may have to wait for Delhi and Islamabad to settle the dispute.It is not for the separatists to decide the date for the bilateral talks but is upto India and Pakistan to set the stage for the parleys,if at all Delhi is interested because of the fact that the soil of Pakistan was being used for exporting terror to India.Secondly,the separatists should come forward,without imposing conditions,and grab the offer for talks made by Delhi.In such a case separatists could register their relevance and hit back at those who simply favour India-Pakistan dialogue.
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