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| Krishna, Rao, Aiyar unleash help-out-Pakistan-campaign | | UPA Of Blunders -- II | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 9: "To my mind, and based on three decades of frequent visits to Pakistan and repeated interaction with a wide spectrum of Pakistan public and political opinion, a harmonious relationship with Pakistan is not only desirable but eminently feasible... This requires so structuring the India-Pakistan dialogue as to make it both uninterrupted and uninterruptible. There is no Indo-Pak issue so intractable as to not be capable of yielding to sustained discussion, as was demonstrated on the back channel during the Musharraf regime, an emergent agreement that dealt even with Kashmir let alone lesser matters…It is disruption of dialogue that is the enemy of dispute resolution. Therefore, inuring the dialogue, insulating it, as it were, from the inevitable ups and downs of a relationship as fraught as ours, is of the essence for the dialogue to bear fruit…let me offer you a quick resume of the three reasons on the Pakistani and Indians sides respectively which make me believe that things augur well for a new relationship between the two distant neighbours…First, from an Indian perspective, for the domestic reason that a tension-free relationship with Pakistan would help us consolidate our nationhood, the bonding adhesive of which is secularism. Second, for the regional reason that regional terrorism can be effectively tackled only in cooperation with Pakistan and not in confrontation with it. Third, for the international reason that India will not be able to play its due role in international affairs so long as it is dragged down by its quarrels with Pakistan…I believe it is in Pakistan's interest to seek accommodation with India for three counterpart reasons. First, the Indian bogey has harmed rather than helped consolidate the nationhood of Pakistan. Second, Pakistan is unable to become a full-fledged democracy and a sustained fast-growing economy owing to the disproportionate role assigned to alleged Indian hostility in the national affairs of the country. And, third, on the international stage, Pakistan is one of the biggest countries in the world and instead of being the front-line in someone else's war perhaps deserves to come into its own as a frontline state in the pursuit of its own interests."
Who expressed these views? Congress leader and former union minister Mani Shankar Aiyer expressed these views. Where did he express these views? In Washington D.C. Where did he express these views and who constituted his audience. He expressed these views at George Washington University and his audience comprised faculty and students, as also a number of think tank representatives and policy wonks in Washington D. C. What was the upshot of his whole lecture? "Terrorism in South Asia can only be tackled if India cooperates with Pakistan in addressing this scourge jointly and not in confrontation with Islamabad."
It could not be a coincidence that Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and senior Congress leader and former minister and diplomat would be there at Singapore, Paris and Washington D.C., respectively, where they would express almost identical views and advocate the need for a sustained dialogue with the treacherous Pakistan. It appears everything was well planned. The need of the time was to dismiss out-of-hand the idea of engaging with Islamabad, which is involved neck-deep in the international terrorism.
India, which has been the worst victim of jihadi terrorism promoted by Pakistan as an instrument of its foreign policy, has already paid a very heavy price for pursuing a policy that has simply strengthened subversives and terrorist regimes in India and accorded international legitimacy to the Pakistan's communal stand on Jammu and Kashmir. Such a policy cannot go on forever. It has to be discarded here and now. It must be remembered that the willingness of the Government of India to continue dialogue with Pakistan despite the international outrage caused due to the latter's involvement in terrorist activities across the globe will further strengthen radical Islamists in India and jeopardize the Indian interests in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. Will Prime Minister Manmohan Singh abandon the suicidal path? |
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