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| Kasuri speaks truth and nothing but truth | | | Hitherto the Kashmir issue has remained unsettled despite inter mittent attempts made by both India and Pakistan to evolve a solution to the 65-year long dispute.In fact solution to the issue seems to be quite elusive.What is amazing is the way both sides are keen to resolve the issue without knowing what solution can satisfy India,Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir.The two sides have not been ignorant about the difficulties involved in the process of settling the Kashmir issue still neither India nor Pakistan has given efforts for finding a solution. Pakistan had tried on three to four occasions to settle the issue through wars.The wars too failed to clinch the matter.Thank God the successive leadership in Islamabad has made it clear that war can "no longer be a solution" and hence the two sides, despite hicuups, have favoured finding a solution to various bilateral problems including Kashmir an d Siachen.
If not earlier,the process of dialogue by the two sides seems to have gained momentum during the last two years.It would have gained speed had not the Mumbai carnage taken place in 2008. Since experts believe that there cannot be any solution to the Kashmir issue it was, there fore, waste of time and energy on the part of India and Pakistan to keep the dialogue, as Islamabad and Kashmiri separatists demand, Kashmir centric. If a proof is required for showing that the Kashmir issue is insoluble it has been given by a former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, who is now heading a task force on Kashmir constituted by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).He has said there can be no "perfect" solution to the Kashmir issue which can be acceptable to all. "There can never be a solution which will be acceptable to cent percent of the people in Kashmir and in Pakistan. There is never going to be a perfect solution", Kasuri has said at a recent discussion on Indo-Pak relations . Recalling that peace talks between the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had made significant progress, he said solutions can be found only by statesmen and not politicians. "Politicians are always thinking about the next elections", he said, adding that war is no longer an option between the two neighboring nations. "The only way forward for us is to remove misunderstandings and have an open communication. Hence only two alternatives are left open for India and Pakistan.First,the two sids should forget about Kashmir being an issue.The portion of the state which is under the occupation of India remain with India and the other portion continue to be part of Pakistan. Secondly, the two sides should agree on freezing the Kashmir issue for at least 10 years. Once this is done it will reduce trust deficit needed for peace in the subcontinent.The problem is that India is not pr epared to give up its legal claim on Jammu an Kashmir,as on the basis of the Inst rumen of Acession,and Islamabad is unwilling to see Kashmir not becoming part of Pakistan. This is really the root c ause for the conflict.If not for anything else atleast for peace in the south Asian region the two sides need to accept the status quo and keep the dialogue process on for settling Siahen,Sir Creek and the water dispute. These issues are not insoluble. These issues would have been settled by now had not Islamabad insisted on making the bilateral talks Kashmir centric. |
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