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| Krishna, Antony treading different paths | | Indo-Pak Ties | | Rustam
Jammu, Oct 1: Something is patently wrong with the Congress-led UPA Government. The government is slowly but surly drifting towards the rock. It is in complete disarray. Ministers are acting independently of prime minister and speaking in many voices. No body knows who is running the country. The worst aspect of the whole situation as it exists today in the country is that there is no consensus between the foreign ministry and defence ministry as far as the Indo-Pak relations are concerned. The situation is indeed horrible. Everyone in the country is feeling perturbed, disturbed and alarmed and even thinking
Foreign Minister SM Krishna appears determined to befriend the unscrupulous Pakistan by pursuing weak-kneed policies. He is doing what his masters - Prime Minister and UPA chairperson - want him to do at the cost of the country. He is cheerfully swallowing all the humiliations being caused by the Pakistani political establishment, including Pakistani Foreign Minister, in and outside India. He wants talks with Pakistan and is prepared to negotiate a truce over Jammu and Kashmir. He is not very much concerned with the existence of terror producing training camps in Pakistan and POJK, 42 in number. Nor does he feel disturbed over the manner Pakistan is exporting terrorism to India to detabilise and wreck it. The fact of the matter is that he, under the influence of the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson, is playing with fire. The cornerstone of their policy is terrorism and talks can go hand-in-hand. It's negation of the stand taken in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks under public pressure.
That Krishna and Defence Minister AK antonym are treading different paths became quite evident yesterday when he told reporters that there could be no peace between the two countries unless Pakistan dismantle and destroy all the 42 terror training camps, located in Pakistan and POJK. "If Pakistan wishes to harmonize relations with India, the former has no option but to destroy terror training camps and stop exporting terrorism to India," he told reporters. He was so emphatic that he did not agree with the reporter who said that there were 40 terrorist training camps in Pakistan. He corrected the reporter saying "not 40, but 42".
The message of Antony, unlike Krishna, was loud and clear and his message was that India wants peace with Pakistan subject to the condition that the latter would not allow its soil to be used for conducting anti-India operations. This should be the line.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is already at the receiving end and under severe attack, would do well to retrospect and refashion his whole approach towards Pakistan. He must discard the policies he has pursued thus for towards Pakistan and Kashmir, as the same have only damaged the Indian reputation, and endorse the Antony line. India just can't afford to see the Foreign Minister and Defence Minister speaking differently on the same issue. It would want the powers-that-be in the South and North Blocks to conduct themselves in a fashion the Pakistani leadership has been conducting to defend the sovereign interests of the country. |
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