Dost Khan
Jammu: Before discussing the big snub United Nations gave to Pakistan on ranting Kashmir yet again, some retrospection is necessary to ponder whether the nation should worry about highly radicalised, untrustworthy and dubious Pakistanis and their lackeys in Kashmir or pseudo Indian activists, who, one way or the other owe allegiance to the Congress of Mrs and Master Gandhi.
Not impressed by Indian soldiers response to Pakistan Rangers and army on International Border in Jammu frontiers, Mani Shankar Aiyar sees no reason to cheer up for the rogue nation getting its rightful place. He describes the claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and top army brass nothing ‘but a more dangerous illusion’. Aiyar goes on saying, “the idea that we have terrified the Pakistanis into submission by shelling a few homes and killing a few soldiers and several innocents might be a myth that washes here but it is far, far from the truth”. With right hand man of Gandhis saying Indian soldiers have killed innocent Pakistani civilians, Islamabad need not do diplomatic bidding to corner India on international forum. This is the tribe Aiyar belongs has done lot of damage to Indian cause on Kashmir and reputation at the international level. They have been travelling continents quite often, including Kashmir and Pakistan, to get themselves engaged in peace process and track-two diplomacy. Who is accrediting them to do so? Very recently Aiyar headed a delegation to Pakistan when one of the delegates, Ved Pratap Vaidik met the most wanted terrorist on globe Hafiz Saeed. He was in Kashmir few weeks back, playing peace pigeon in the ‘hostile’ environs of the seminar.
The new Indian government better rein in these rudderless ships which would have sank since but for the life-saving anchoring getting from unknown quarters. Narendra Modi should find out. Unless doing so, the pseudo activists would never let Kashmir issue to get into back burner. They are the people who provide much needed oxygen to Kashmiri separatists and make them relevant by making beelines at their residences while convalescing in the serene atmosphere. These days they won’t dare go there due to floods and absence of hospitality. This is the stuff which has been barking and harping on, as Aiyer pleads “exchanges of all kinds between Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC – the restoration of Kashmiriyat by fostering exchanges between people, relatives, friends, media, goods and services across the LoC in a two-way traffic”. They believe Pakistan has repeatedly – even with the change of regime in India – shown that it is ready to talk with India but problem lies with India. The encouragement of the self styled ‘debaters and talk-two actors’ has served as a license to Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists to seek resolution through the United Nations. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been forthright in calling the bluff of Islamabad to internationsise the issue by stating that India and Pakistan should resolve all differences through dialogue and constructively engaging themselves to find a long-term solution for peace and stability in Kashmir. This is precisely the spirit of Shimla Agreement reached between then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972 when Pakistan was desperately seeking repatriation of about one lakh soldiers and officers taken as Prisoners of War in Bangladesh. This Agreement was carried forward to Lahore Declaration, which provides the framework to resolve all the issues between India and Pakistan. Needless to say that India too has been considering Kashmir as a dispute-to the extent of liberating the parts of the State under illegal occupation of the rogue nation in the neighborhood. That part, known as slave Kashmir, is being used as safe haven and breeding ground for terrorists to wage war against India. The low key proxy war is going on for the past two and half decades, which has unfortunately turned out as a lucrative avocation for anti-national elements in Kashmir. These are the people who keep harping on UN Resolution and Pakistan’s diplomatic offensive had given surge to their lunatic euphoria. However, the snub by the UN must have dampened their spirits as well, as that of Pakistan. After UN salvo to Pakistan and her lackeys in Kashmir, Narendra Modi Government has aptly sent a terse message that the tactics adopted by Islamabad have not worked earlier and will not work now. “The road to a peaceful and cooperative relationship between India and Pakistan runs from Islamabad via Lahore to New Delhi”, was the impromptu response of India to UN take. Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists better understand this and try to look to New Delhi rather than New York.