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| Every Tom, Dick & Harry poking nose in Kashmir & threatening India | | Indifferent Indian Foreign Office | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Mar 11: Every Tom, Dick and Harry is threatening India and undermining her authority. On Saturday, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks Hafiz Saeed threatened India of dire consequences in the event of New Delhi not stopping subversive activities in Baluchistan, Pakistan. He administered the threat notwithstanding the fact that India has nothing to do with what has been happening in the restive Baluchistan. India has no interest in the area. Its only interest is in Afghanistan because it feels, and rightly, that a stable and Taliban-free Afghanistan is in the larger interest of India. India would never want a situation where Pakistan is in a position to play its nefarious games in Afghanistan.
It is a different story that our Prime Minister allowed his Pakistani counterpart to include in the Sharm-el-Sheikh joint-statement a reference to Baluchistan, an act that provoked a sort of furore in India. Saeed threatened India while addressing a rally of about 1000 extremists at Lahore Press Club and accused both India and United States of fomenting anti-Pakistan trouble in Baluchistan. It is important to note that only recently a member of House of Representatives in United Stated moved a resolution seeking the right to self-determination for the people of Baluchistan.
A few days ago, Margaret Sekaggya, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights, recommended that the National Security Act (NSA), the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) and the Chhattisgarh Public Safety Act (SPSA) be repealed in the light of "international human rights standards". Margaret had, it needs to be recalled, visited Kashmir in January 2011 and met with not only members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) but also with several other groups. She incorporated the views of the APDP in her recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Council, recommendations made to the Council in the 19th session held on February 6, 2012.
It is important to note that Pakistan used the Margaret's recommendations to beat India from right and left. In fact, Pakistan said that its stand on the human rights situation in Kashmir stood vindicated, saying "impartial" observers like Margaret have recommended repeal of Acts such as the NSA, the AFSPA, the PSA and the SPSA.
And, on March 9, none other than the Pakistan Foreign Office (PFO) spokesman Abdul Basit not only denied reports that Islamabad and New Delhi had agreed to put at backburner the Kashmir issue for ten years, but also reiterated the Pakistani stand on Kashmir. Interacting with media persons, Basit said: "Pakistan always supported the Kashmir issue and emphasisd the need that it should be resolved in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations and peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue is essential for viable peace in South Asia. There is no question that Kashmir issue has been freezed or put at backburner…Kashmiris (read Kashmiri Muslims) have given innumerable sacrifices in their just struggle for right to self-determination and settlement of this issue in accordance with the UN resolutions is essential… Pakistan is taking steps to normalize relations with India but reaching the final destination will inevitably contingent upon realization of the aspirations of Kashmiris".
So three developments took place during the past few days, all indicating brazen interference in the internal affairs of India. The Indian Foreign Office (IFO) should have taken cognizance of these developments and taken on those interfering in the internal matters of the country, but it didn't. It thought it advisable not to speak. It is this indifferent attitude to the serious developments that should disturb all right thinking people in the country. Why this indifferent attitude? Is something going on behind-the-scene? What is it that is going on behind the curtain?
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