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| Delhi talks between Indian PM & Pak President disappointing | | PM To Visit Pak | |
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JAMMU, Apr 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has again disappointed the Indian nation. In fact, New Delhi under his regime has once caused an affront to the self-respect of the already bleeding Indian nation. How else should one interpret the mind-boggling decision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to accept the invitation extended to him by the visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to visit Pakistan? The Pakistani President invited the Indian Prime Minister to visit Pakistan today during his talks with him at 7 Race Course, New Delhi, official residence of our Prime Minister.
People were expecting that the Prime Minister would tell the Pakistan President on his face that New Delhi would talk to Islamabad only after Islamabad had taken some credible action against Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks; only after Islamabad had stopped exporting terror to India and dismantled not only the entire terror-related infrastructure on the Pakistani soil but also destroyed all the over 40 terrorist-training camps in Pakistan and POK; only after Pakistan had stopped fomenting anti-India troubles in Kashmir; and only after Islamabad had made a categorical commitment that it would now under no situation extend the so-called moral, diplomatic and political support to the Kashmir-based ultras.
The media, especially a section of the electronic media, had also given the people to understand that our Prime Minister would talk tough and ask the visiting Pakistani President to help India apprehend and bring to justice Hafiz Saeed and other terrorists so that what they had done in Mumbai could be avenged. But nothing of this sort happened. What happened was to the contrary. The Prime Minister not only forgot Mumbai and what the weeping Mumbai had witnessed on that black day (26/11) and what had been done in Mumbai by Saeed & Co, but also very cheerfully walked into the Pakistani trap by accepting the invitation to visit Pakistan. 26/11 terror attacks had left 166 persons dead and scores of other wounded. As if all this was not enough to cause an affront to the self-respect of the Indian nation, the Prime Minister went to extent of saying that New Delhi wanted "practical and pragmatic solutions to the issues facing the two countries".
As for Zardari, he did not make any such commitment. He did not talk in those terms in which our Prime Minister talked. Zardari simply said that the talks between him and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were "fruitful". He also said that Pakistan discussed all those issues which needed to be discussed. He must have discussed with the Indian Prime Minister issues ranging from Jammu and Kashmir to Sir Creek to Siachen Glacier to Afghanistan to the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan and in the manner consistent with Islamabad's age old stands on these issues.
One doesn't really know what really transpired between the two during their one-on-one talks. But one can surely say that the Prime Minister must have pursued the line he had pursued at Havana (Cuba) and Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt). At Havana, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said "Pakistan, like India, is a victim of terrorism". And, at, Sharm-el-Sheikh, he had shocked the Indian nation by not only de-linking terror from talks but also by accepting indirectly the New Delhi's involvement in subversive activities in Baluchistan through Afghanistan. One cannot expect anything other than this from our Prime Minister whose views on Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir are too well known. It is a matter of deep concern that the Prime Minister, instead of appreciating the national sentiment, is pursuing a line that only helps Pakistan to accomplish what it wants in stages or otherwise. |
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