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| Pak cabinet reshuffle unlikely to affect proposed talks | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 12: Both the Kashmiri separatists and leaders of mainstream opposition parties in the state are of the opinion that the recent cabinet reshuffle in Pakistan will have no impact on the ongoing attempts by New Delhi and Islamabad at putting the stalled dialogue process back on the rail. Senior PDP leader, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, said that the cabinet reshuffle does not indicate any change of guard in Islamabad and hence the decision of the two sides to resume the process of composite dialogue will not be affected. Bhat said that the PDP is in favour of sustained and meaningful dialogue between India and Pakistan for resolving all the bilateral problems in the interest of peace in South Asia. Congress spokesman Ravinder Sharma said that since the PPP led Government continues to hold the office in Islamabad the recent cabinet reshuffle may not have any adverse impact on the decision of India and Pakistan to go in for sustained and meaningful dialogue.
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has already stated that he treated it the biggest news when he got to know that Delhi and Islamabad have decided to resume the bilateral talks. He hoped that the proposed talks would settle all the bilateral problems. He too felt that the cabinet reshuffle in Islamabad will have no bearing on the proposed parleys.
Senior APHC leader, Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat, said that Islamabad's decision to ensure resumption of the process of dialogue with India is the state policy and such a policy cannot face any change or problem with the reshuffle in the cabinet. However, political observers in Jammu and Kashmir feel intrigued over the weaning away of external Affairs from the hands of S.M. Qureshi who had refused to take the oath as a cabinet Minister after he was told that he was being given some other portfolio and not that of the
foreign Affairs. Since Qureshi has been close to Washington his ouster means growing strains in the US-Pak relations. Others say that denying the Foreign Affairs portfolio to Qureshi Islamabad wanted to have him out so that the proposed talks with India could prove meaningful. Hitherto Qureshi has been known as India baiter and a man close to the Army and the ISI.
Pakistan Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, may have been threatened by Qureshi's growing stature within and outside Pakistan which would have been another reason for Gilani and Zardari to ease him out of the cabinet.
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