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STARK REALITY
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 13: It was expected that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would again rule out a US-style operation by India to chase, catch and eliminate Pakistan-based terrorists wanted by it and it actually happened. There are 50 terrorists in Pakistan India wants to try and bring to justice. They are involved in the various terror attacks India witnessed from time to time, including the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts and the 26/11/2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The Indian Prime Minister made this uninspiring statement yesterday at Kabul (Afghanistan) while addressing a joint press conference with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The upshot of the Prime Minister’s whole interaction with reporters was that “we (India) are not United States”, notwithstanding the fact that he also emphasized the need for a “thorough investigation into the presence of Osama bin Laden for such a long time on the soil of Abbotabad” (Pakistan), as also notwithstanding his statement that “bin Laden's death has created a ‘new situation’ and all countries of the region -- India, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- would recognise this as a ‘unique moment’ in the history of this region and work unitedly to end the scourge of terrorism.”
The message of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had already lowered the image of the country and disappointed the nation by pursuing weak-kneed policies towards Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, was loud and clear: India will not act against those who have taken shelter in Pakistan after committing heinous crimes against India and who continue to pose a live challenge to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. And, his message from Kabul must make the nation sit down and examine the implications of what he said in a foreign country. Such an exercise has become imperative in view of what he did at Havana (Cuba), Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt) and Thimpu (Bhutan).
In Cuba, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had equated Pakistan with India and sprang a bid surprise by making a ridiculous statement that “Pakistan, like India, is also a victim of terrorism.” He did not say that India had suffered immense losses because of the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and that the menace of terrorism that had consumed thousands of lives in Pakistan had its origin in Pakistan itself. He did not tell the then Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan had suffered because Islamabad itself promoted terrorism to use it as part of its foreign policy to promote its interests in Jammu and Kashmir and bleed, weaken, break and destroy India. Havana declaration constituted Pakistan’s splendid diplomatic victory and India’s humiliate defeat.
At Sharm-el-Sheikh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh crossed all the lines to please and appease Pakistan. He, along with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, issued a statement that de-linked terrorism from the dialogue process with Pakistan. He said: Terrorism and dialogue would go hand-in-hand. Not only this, the Indian Prime Minister accepted, may be indirectly, the Pakistani charge that India was involved in subversive activities in Baluchistan. The joint-statement issued by him and the Pakistani Prime Minister included a reference to that effect. In other words, the Sharm-el-Sheikh constituted yet another Pakistan’s spectacular diplomatic victory and India’s humiliate defeat.
The story of what transpired at Thimpu after the shame of Havana and Sharm-el-Sheikh was no different. At Thimpu, the Prime Minister once again reiterated his stand that India was committed to resuming the stalled composite dialogue process with Pakistan. And, remember, neither Manmohan Singh nor anyone in the Indian Foreign Office even once told Pakistan that the only issue that still remained unresolved between India and Pakistan was the political future of the so-called Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, which Pakistan illegally occupied in 1947-48. Manmohan Singh and the Indian Foreign Office took this stand notwithstanding the Pakistani belligerence and no-holds-barred anti-India propaganda. It would not be out of place to mention here that the Manmohan Singh administration had once again shamed the nation overlooking the Pakistani Foreign Minister’s highly provocative statement at Multan: “We did not kneel; India knelt; New Delhi used to say we will not talk to Pakistan; now India under international pressure asks Pakistan to resume the stalled composite dialogue process.”
The Prime Minister’s Kabul statement that “India is not United States” just cannot be overlooked. For, it has serious implication for India in the sense that he has told the international community that India, unlike United States, is a weak country. India is not weak. India is strong as the United States. There should be no doubt it. Those who are ruling India are meek and weak. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Indian Prime Minister has once again shamed India and lowered its image in the eyes of the international community by negatively comparing India with United States.
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