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| Pakistan plays blame game to divert Delhi's attention from Hafiz Saeed | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 30: Though Islamabad,on one hand, has conveyed to New Delhi its desire for ending the blame game in the interest of peace and cordial ties,on the other hand it is trying to rake up the concocted issue of India's interference in Balochistan.
During the recent two-day meeting between the Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan in Islamabad the Pakistani side saw to it that India neither achieved success in finalising an agreement on new visa regime nor in its mission of forcing Islamabad to initiate action against the JuD chief, Hafiz Saeed,who,India believes,masterminded the terrorist strike in Mumbai in 2008 killing about 170 people.
New Delhi,without making an issue out of the stand taken by Pakistan on the visa regime, simply stated that "we have reports that the Pakistani side referred to some delay in its procedure and the Pakistan Interior Minister's desire for political participation" in signing of the visa pact."
"Both sides had attached a lot of importance on signing the visa agreement", Delhi has said.
Ahead of the talks, Indian officials had said the two sides had given the finishing touches to a new relaxed visa regime that would for the first time include tourist visas, visas on arrival for senior citizens and children and year- long multiple-entry visas for businessmen.
Instead, Pakistan's Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, has said that Home Minister P Chidambaram was welcome to visit Pakistan and that he "would be glad" if Chidambaram comes to Islamabad for the signing of the visa agreement.Malik said both sides had exchanged dossiers on terrorism-related issues and that Pakistan had received additional evidence from India against JuD chief and LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks.
While dishing out details about India's stand on issues pertaining to terrorist activities, Malik dropped a bombshell when he stated that Pakistani authorities could not act on the basis of "hearsay" and that they would examine the evidence against Saeed.
In a bid to raise fresh hurdles in India's demand for handing over Saeed to the Indian security agencies for sustained interrogation, Malik said the two sides had also discussed the issue of India's alleged interference in Pakistan's Balochistan province and Interior Secretary Khwaja Siddique Akbar had been directed to provide "evidence" in this regard to his Indian counterpart.
Malik's advice to the two sides left observers astonished.He had stated that the two sides should give up the "blame-game" and work together to tackle issues like terrorism.These observers wish to know from Malik the reasons that have motivated or prompted Islamabad to indule in blame game.First Islamabad had started blaming New Delhi for interferring in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and now it has started talking about New Delhi's interference in Balochistan.
Observers hold Islamabad responsible for kidding New Delhi by raising one extraneous issue after the other leaving hardly any scope for the two to get closer than they have been during the last over 64 years. |
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