Indo-Pak Relations: Who is Responsibe?



Cheating the people cannot be a logical state business, especially in genuine democracies. Imperialist or colonialist invasions and illegal occupations on military strength stem from the state instincts for deception, cheating. 

Efforts by India and Pakistan to improve the relationship have always led to complications and uncertain because the major problem Kashmir does not allow that to happen. Supposing India and Pakistan had not invaded the neighboring Jammu Kashmir and divided between them and then manufactured costly nukes to protect the invaded  parts of Kashmir, perhaps, India and would have  long ago become friends and even strategic allies. 

In South Asia, today any development of “connectivity and interchanges” in terms of pipeline and cross-border trade has been stymied by decades of Pakistan-India antagonism over Kashmir sharing. It has also been complicated in recent years by a growing Chinese presence.

With big powers enjoying the Indo-Pak tensions, resultant wars, deaths, the relations between them have long been decomposed and therefore the latest talks between national security advisers (NSAs) even on cross-border trade were scuttled in a flood of accusations and counter-accusations.

The decomposed status of the bilateral ties has always been complicated by the militaries and intelligence wings on both sides, including the standing forces at the LOC plus the corporate run indo-Pakistani media. – all of them do not in fact wish or want or seek peace between the neighbors.  They perhaps gain a lot only if both are engaged in prolonged wars and perpetual tensions.

India does not want any big power to mediate for peace between them because Indian strategists do not want it in the first place. India has asked every nation, both in the west and east, not to interfere with Kashmir issue as it is an “integral part” of India. In fact when the foreign signatories visit India, New Delhi asks them point blank to support its Kashmir case and UN veto dream. India did not spare even US president Obama but he sticks to US policy which seeks money from those that seek American help.

India supports US led war on Islam, known as war on terror, knowing fully well about the Sept -11 hoax used as a legal pretext to invade and destabilize an Islamizing Afghanistan and an Islamic Pakistan plus a large number of other Muslim nations, especially in oil rich West Asia. As so-called democracies they need each other for a long time to come. . .

Since Kashmiris, unlike India and Pakistan, have got no money to pay to foreign sources for logistical or political support for the cause of Kashmir and they cannot pay money to Washington or London or Moscow, they are not treated  well by foreign  leaders who try to appease New Delhi’s sentiments . . . 

Above all, Indian insistence that Kashmiris should not be a part of the talks has caused immense negative problems between India and Pakistan.   

There was nearly a trade deal in 2012 (which maybe could be resurrected), and earlier in the 2000s there was an almost-soft-borders’ deal, but they remained almost-deals.

Like his predecessors, the decomposed nature of bilateral relations was a setback for Narendra Modi as well, and he also wanted to draw Pakistan into a circle of “improved sub-continental relationships” to activate the pipeline project that runs through Pakistan from Central Asia.

In fact India and Pakistan cannot even think of the sort of connectivity and interchanges that are routine between most neighboring countries elsewhere in the world owing to their respective nuke arsenals and Kashmir issue. Both would use WMD against each other if their illegal possession of Jammu Kashmir is threatened.

India’s relations with economically weak nations like Bangladesh or Sri Lanka or Bhutan or Nepal cannot be of any reference point to show Indian ability for forging relations with neighbours, so long as China and its ally Pakistan become Indian ally. This has indeed been a acid test for Indian diplomacy for years now. In fact, except Bhutan all other neighbors have maintained only conditional ties with India.  India’s ties with Nepal with which China has strong political and economic ties, have been badly strained

Modi’s hopes were raised on July 10 when he met Nawaz Sharif in the Russian city of Ufa where they were attending BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits. The talks were said to be unusually constructive. Sharif and his officials seemed to want to improve relations and join Modi’s circle of co-operation.

With Pakistan’s security forces preoccupied with terrorism at home and a worsening situation in Afghanistan, Indian officials hoped that the country’s all-powerful army chief would support Nawaz Sharif’s acceptance of India’s request for talks between the two countries’ NSAs on “all issues connected to terrorism”.

Indian diplomacy works as USA stands obediently behind Modi. Under tremendous pressure from both USA and India, Pakistani government of Sharif even considered sympathetically to sideline the Kashmir issue in favor of business tracks with India. . As soon as Nawaz Sharif returned to Islamabad, however, there were negative noises from Pakistan. The main complaint was that the statement agreed to discuss “all outstanding issues” but did not specify the usually-included issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

The NSA talks were planned for last weekend, August 22-23, to discuss not Kashmir but only terrorism, which India uses as a powerful tool to get  world behind it, as it  would provide it with an opportunity to pinpoint dross fires and incidents of cross-border infiltration  from one Kashmir to another because Kashmiris view both parts as one nation. .

Under pressure from  people of Pakistan PM Sharif began to insist that Kashmir should be specifically included in the talk agenda, which India said was against India and the Ufa agreement. Pakistan also said that its high commissioner in Delhi would, as usual, be inviting leaders of separatists based in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, who want varying degrees of independence or autonomy from Delhi, to a reception before the talks. PM Modi had unexpectedly cancelled talks between the two countries’ foreign secretaries in August a year ago after the high commissioner similarly invited the separatists for talks.

India has accepted and tolerated these meetings for years because tensions could be reduced, but Modi wanted to demonstrate that the Kashmiri victim of Indian brutality, especially freedom separatists and their Hurriyat umbrella organization were not a party to talks and India-Pakistan relations.

Pakistan claims that India responds to attacks in Kashmir with disruption in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan and elsewhere. Maybe they were eventually the talks to be abandoned

India wanted allow, if at all,  the Kashmiri separatists’ leaders to meet Sartaj Aziz, 86, Pakistan’s NSA and a former foreign and finance minister after his formal talks, and not before. No logic at all.  On the eve of the scheduled meet between Indian and Pakistani NSA chiefs, India immorally arrested others when they arrived at Delhi airport to stop them from reaching the high commissioners’ reception. Also, India put some of the Kashmiri leaders under house arrest in Srinagar. These actions were meant to dishallow the scheduled meeting from taking place in New Delhi.  

For years Pakistan has sought international support for its position that Kashmir's future must be resolved through dialogue with India and a plebiscite among the Kashmiri people. India has ruled out plebiscite altogether saying Kashmir is not negotiable since it decorates Indian map as its crown and without Kashmir India would look headless which Indians consider inauspicious and awkward. In fact when India invaded and occupied Jammu Kashmir in 1947 it was pleased to see itself protected by Kashmir over its long nick. Former Pakistani envoy to the US and director of South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute Husain Haqqani seems to suggest  that Pakistan no longer enjoys international support on Kashmir and is unlikely to get an approval for a referendum in the region from the UN Security Council.

There is empty talk of 'teaching Pakistan a lesson' without acknowledging that teaching military lessons to nations armed with nuclear weapons is never easy. Indians could learn from the US frustrations with North Korea.

While Russia backed India on Kashmir issue, USA earlier backed Pakistan, its NATO ally, on that but now even USA is backing India, its new strategic partner in terror operations along with Israel.  USA values very high India’s new money.

Observation

When Indian media lords themselves are  either unaware of  the recent history of India after 1947, or  refuses to admin t that as a colossal national crime,  it is ironical that foreign commentators on Kashmir and Indo-Pak tensions  write on the materials  churned out  by Indian strategists,  giving  false impressions on Kashmir, the  pathetic plight of Kashmiris. Like Indian counterparts, the foreigners also have no sympathy for Kashmiri Muslims, especially after the Sept—11 hoax in USA.  India tracks all those who try to write the truth about Kashmir and tries to make them irrelevant by funding the “concerned and unconcerned.”..

Terrorism in Kashmir is the result of Indian brutality in that nation and it is strategically promoted by the occupational forces. India, its strategists, including PM, President and ministers, never even mention that Indian had invaded and occupied Jammu Kashmir even as a mistake. India never and its crimes being perpetuated in Kashmir for years, killing over 100,000 but talks at length about terrorism to fool the world. .

India and Pakistan continue to fight over Kashmir without any legal sanction or seriousness with both having decided not to surrender Jammu Kashmir to Kashmiris.  Both are happy about the support they get from sections of Kashmiris which is used immorally for legitimacy purposes. .

India seeks the support of Pakistan’s “civilian government” to ignore its military counsel and help India resolve the Kashmir issue on Indian conditions. Indian strategists argue that since Kashmir is already an integral part of India Pakistan should understand Indian mindset and come to terms with New Delhi for cross border trade. India wants the status quo to  have a final laugh and to end the dispute.

India would feel confident of retaining Jammu Kashmir so long as Pakistan takes a bold decision of resurrecting sovereign Jammu Kashmir as it existed before the fateful 1947. But India very tactfully plays on Pakistani inclination for retaining Azad Kashmir and other parts of Kashmir that are now a part of Pakistan and its  reluctance to declare a new sovereign Jammu Kashmir.

India reasons that Pakistani fight for Kashmir is not  for Kashmiris but for itself as Islamabad has no plan to surrender Kashmiri lands to Kashmiris themselves and use the pro-Pakistani  leaders to its advantage  and  to justify its claims over Sri Nagar which is entirely under Indian military occupation and perpetual brutalities.  . .

One fails to comprehend Indian mindset as to why it does not want Kashmiri participation in finding lasting solution to Kashmir problem that would answer the issue of Indo-Pak strains.

When India and Pakistan themselves have no clear idea but what exactly they want, one can’t blame the foreign commentators on bilateral relations.  

Both India and Pakistan play the Kashmir issue like they play cricket for mutual benefits, more profits like 100s and 50 runs.

Lies and mischief cannot form the basis for diplomacy and domestic policy. The governments of both India and Pakistan must tell the truth about Kashmir to their people.

If India and Pakistan are now preparing ground for eventual withdrawal of their military forces form Jammu Kashmir, of course that is a responsible move toward regional peace and better credible bilateral relations.

That is also the only way out if they really care for peace!

Occupations and occupational crimes are a shame in today’s globalized world and India. Support from abroad for their joint yokes in Jammu Kashmir cannot be pardon at all. India and Pakistan must and choose civilized ways and let Kashmiris live freely as a sovereign nation.

Illegal occupations and related crimes have no justification!


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