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| Khar minced no words, said Kashmir core issue | | | NEHA
JAMMU, Sept 9: Pakistani stand on Jammu & Kashmir is very clear. There is no ambiguity. Pakistani leadership speaks in one voice in Pakistan and outside, including India. Ever since its emergence, Pakistan has been saying Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of partition and Kashmir is the core issue between India and Pakistan. As expected, yesterday at Islamabad, addressing joint press conference with her Indian counterpart S M Krishna, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar without mincing words said Kashmir for Pakistan is a core issue. In other words, she said if India wants to normalize relations with Islamabad, New Delhi has no other option but to handover Jammu & Kashmir to Pakistan so that the unfinished agenda of partition is finished. Krishna didn't retort; he didn't contest what Khar said in so many words.
What exactly did Khar say? She said: "Kashmir is a core issue. The aspirations of the Kashmiri people must be accommodated and a quest for peaceful settlement requires that we be associated in one way or the other within the dialogue process…So as we build the momentum... as we build the trust... as we build the confidence in each other's intentions and each other's commitments to a different view...to a different mindset to a different goal altogether to a different vision, I am quite sure that we will be able to march ahead to resolve all the disputes. It is important to do so because we must be able to disarm the nay sayers. We must be able to disarm the people who will continue want to divide us. So it is important that we are able to resolve these issues so that we can move forward and continue to consolidate on the success that we have been able to achieve so far and start viewing each other and looking at each other and co-existing as a part of the region…The two neighbours should look for ways and means for solutions to issues, including Jammu and Kashmir, so that we continue to develop on our achievements through dialogue". Was there any ambiguity in what she said in the very presence of Krishna? There was no ambiguity whatever.
She not only talked about Jammu & Kashmir and told her counterpart that resolution of Jammu & Kashmir is a must. She also talked about Siachen, Sir Creek and the 1960 Indus Water Treaty. The fact of the matter is that she talked about all the issues Islamabad considers crucial. The only thing she didn't reflect on was the scourge of terrorism. She didn't talk about the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which had left no less than 166 innocent civilians, including women and children dead. On the contrary, she had said a day earlier that India should forget 26/11 and move forward. She had told Pakistani media that India should shun negative mindset and should move in its ties ahead without being held hostage to past positions.
What she said should not surprise us. She said what she was expected to say as a committed Pakistani. What should shock all of us was the manner in which our weak and meek Foreign Minister listened to her. It is clear now that New Delhi under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is under the complete control of AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, is more than willing to barter away our national interests to placate Pakistan. And it is not the first occasion that New Delhi under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acted the way it acted in Islamabad yesterday. It has been acting in this manner ever since our Prime Minister met with the then Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf at Havana, Cuba, during his first inning in the South Block. He had said, "Pakistan, like India, is also a victim of terrorism".
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