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| Let Pak experiment with love-India policy | | | Besides issues related to crossborder terrorism, infiltration and trade Prime Miniter, Manmohan Singh, and his counterpart in Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, are likely to discuss setting up of crossborder electricity grid and the prress on peace initiatives when the two meet on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Maldives next week. Though the two sides are yet to frame an agenda for the talks reports do indicate that Pakistan is keen to discuss the ongoing electricity shortage in the two countries. Reports said that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would discuss setting up of a "mutually beneficial" cross-border electricity grid in his meeting with Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during the SAARC summit in Maldives. Gilani made the remarks while chairing a meeting to review work on several major power projects across Pakistan, which is currently grappling with a severe energy crisis. The premier said he would take up the proposed cross-border electricity grid during his expected meeting with Singh. A statement issued by the premier's office said Gilani expressed satisfaction over recent talks between experts of Pakistan and India on establishing a "back-to-back electricity grid between the two countries.
Islamabad believes that "provided the modalities are appropriately worked out between the two counties, the proposed grid could contribute towards reducing the power shortage in both countries" in the long term. It is in this context that experts from India and Pakistan are in the process of finalising the "cost, end user agreement and other modalities" for the proposed electricity grid. A meeting of the experts will soon be held in Pakistan. India has formally offered to sell power to Pakistan during a meeting of Commerce Secretaries of the two sides in Islamabad in April. If the the events that have taken place in the Indian subcontinent during the last over one year it seems that New Delhi is willing and ready to help Islamabad in resolving electricity crisis in Pakistan. Not only this.India is willing to promote trade and travel between the two sides and hitherto Islamabad doees not seem to be prepared to abandon its hate India policy. If it does give up its antiindia policy the bilateral trade could touch new high. But unfortunately Pakistan has granted Most Favoured Nation(MFN) status to India on Wednesday when New Delhi has granted MFN status to Pakistan as back as in 1996.
New Delhi is prepared to forget what the successive Governments in Islamabad have done by way of causing economic bleed to India and by posing serious security problems by sponsoring terrorism in the neighbouring country. After all any urge for promoting cordial ties between the two neighbouring countries is a two-way traffic. It can never be a one-way traffic as Pakistan expects to be. Islamabad is wrong if it thinks that India will continue to provide non-military support to Pakistan if there is no end to crossborder terrorism. For about 63 years the successive Governments in Pakistan have adopted what is called stab in the back policy vis-a-vis India. It fought four wars besides the 1999 Kargil misadventure which did not help Pakistan in grabbing Kashmir. Since 1983 it has sponsored insurgency first in Punjab and then in Jammu and Kashmir and by now Pakistan trained terrorists have adopted hit and run strategy in any Indian state.Time has come for Islamabad to experiment with love India policy. If it does so people in Pakistan and India are sure to enjoy peace and political stability. |
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