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STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 16: Something is fundamentally wrong with those governing India and managing her foreign affairs. It appears they are flapping aimlessly, thus giving opportunity after opportunity to the rogue and failed states like Pakistan to threaten and browbeat us and cause affront to the Indian self-respect almost everyday. Take, for example, Pakistan, which is disintegrating; which has mortgaged her sovereignty to the United States and provided her air bases inside Pakistan for meeting her financial needs; which is witnessing an ethnic strife of sorts; which has no civil administration; which has also bartered away her interests to befriend the expansionist China; which is recognized across the globe as a terrorist state; which is being ruled by a group comprising Army, Inter-Service Intelligence operatives and extremists; which shamed herself on May 2, when the United States Special Forces (Navy Seals) launched a military operation deep inside Pakistan and caught and killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden; and which stands for a pernicious and medieval ideology.
There is no need to reflect on what Pakistan has been doing to India since August 1947, as every Indian is fully aware of it. However, it would be appropriate to refer here to the response of those managing the country’s foreign affairs to what every Tom, Dick and Harry in Pakistan has been doing to cause an affront to the Indian self-respect. On May 5, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir warned India against any Abbotabad-like operation inside Pakistan, saying any such “misadventure” would lead to a “terrible catastrophe” and accused the “Indian establishment and armed forces of trying to subvert the agenda of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.” The same day, Pakistan’s Army chief General Ishfaq Parvez Kayani administered a similar threat. He said: “He would not tolerate a repeat of the American covert operation” and warned that “any similar action (on the part of India) would” would mean a full-scale war against.
What was the Indian response? Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna said: “Despite Osama episode, we will have to deal with Islamabad...Disengaging Pakistan, because of bin Laden's episode in Pakistan, certainly would not be a very wise move.” He said so in Singapore on May 6. The same day, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said in Paris: “Engagement with Pakistan a very rational decision…Engagement with Pakistan is not a signal of helplessness but a very rational decision and that's the best way forward for our people.” And, the same day Congress MP and former minister diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyer said in Washington D C: "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."
As for the Indian Foreign Office and the Prime Minister’s Office, they said what Pakistan Foreign Secretary and Pakistani General said was an “over reaction” and that the dialogue process with Pakistan must move forward. It was this meek and weak response that further emboldened Pakistan. It’s no wonder then that the ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who is being roundly criticized and condemned in Pakistan for the Abbotabad episode, has also warned India of dire consequences.
Pasha, it may be mentioned, said yesterday at Islamabad that “any Abbotabad-like attack would invite a befitting response from Pakistan as targets inside the country (India) have already been identified and rehearsal carried out.” “Any attack from the east (read India) would invite a befitting response…A contingency plan is in place and targets inside India had already been identified…We have also carried out rehearsal for it,” Pasha told the lawmakers in camera.
When will the custodians of the Indian State rise to the occasion and act firmly against those who are taunting and insulting the Indian nation? When will those who are managing the Indian foreign affairs or dealing with Pakistan muster courage and call the Pakistan’s bluff? Will they ever do the needful? These are very difficult questions and it’s really impossible to answer any of these questions. However, one thing is clear: the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and her very self-respect are at stake and New Delhi’s behaviour is irresponsible. |
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