Indo-Pak talks: Just for the sake of political time pass

Our nation needs to take a stronger stand. The Indian government must make it clear to Pakistan that there will be no talks on Kashmir which is an integral part of India rather talks will be held on the regions illegally occupied by Pakistan.

INDO - PAK dialogue is not a new phenomenon. In fact, this news now doesn’t attract any enthusiasm from any quarter at times when it has become a well established fact that both sides will keep on banging their heads on a wall with pre-conceived notions and none going to trust the other even a bit on any issue.


The history of India-Pakistan relations since 1947 i.e. when Pakistan came into existence after partition of the country on August 14, and a separate nation was carved out purely on religious basis, is known to all and it is also no secret that it was Pakistan which attacked India first every time it got an opportunity.

After analysing that it would be not possible for Pakistan to win from India in any direct confrontation, Pakistan policy makers decided to experiment it with fighting a ‘proxy war’ with India in which their tactics was to used the youth of the region in the name of religion and thus with the help if their intelligence agency the ISI, the blue print for taking up the militancy against India was drawn and by 1990, they began their strikes in the Kashmir valley in form of militant attacks in which their first target was to flush out Kashmiri Pandit families living in the Kashmir valley in a phased and planned manner.



After succeeding in this game plan, they began attacking the key installations of the Indian government present in the valley. After almost 20 years now there is some respite following the fencing along the Indo-Pak border and after the US making attacks on militant camps and their groups in Afghanistan and in regions present along the Pak-Afghan border that the incidents of militancy have come down significantly in the valley.


Now after the Indian government has started plying its own Railways in the valley, and we have been having elections done in the Kashmir region for the legislature both for the assembly and for the Parliament, and have been making our own elected government in the state, what is the need to discuss Kashmir with Pakistan? When we claim and repeatedly say in every world forum that ‘Kashmir is an inseparable part of India,’ then why our secretaries, ministers talk on the land which is already in the possession of Indian government?

It is simply ridiculous on our part to talk on something which is already ours. Instead of Kashmir, there should be discussion on taking back the land which has been illegally occupied by Pakistan i.e. Pak occupied Kashmir or the PoK as it is better known. By this yardstick, tomorrow I have little doubt if our leaders start discussing Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh or Sikkim with China.


If tomorrow Beijing exerts pressure on the Indian government and we start secretary level talks in Delhi over these states stating them as disputed region and acknowledging the same, it would be political hara-kiri. A blunder for which the coming generation would only curse the political class of today that they did no homework before getting into the rounds of talks with the Pakistani delegation which arrived in Delhi for talks including terrorism.


Time has come when the Indian government must make it clear to Pakistan that there will be no talks on Kashmir which is an integral part of India rather talks will be held on the regions illegally occupied by Pakistan and same should happen with China.

A large part of Kashmir is under the occupancy of Chinese troops. Sadly we show the entire map of Kashmir in India but that’s also cheating with the countrymen as most of the region shown in the map which is often used by our Met department to show weather on the Indian TV channels lies either with China or Pakistan.
But we never feel comfortable in talking about that region in any debate/seminar or on any global platform including the United Nations, SAARC, ASEAN summit etc.


After being a responsible nuclear power and having one of the best armies in the world, if we can’t talk for our rights and for legitimate part of our nation’s territory, we must stop showing and holding political dramas every now and then because that would only waste our precious time and money. When our political class and bureaucratic set up know each others competence to tackle international issues it is better they don’t put extra burden on the state exchequer for making political gossip amidst five star lunches and dinners.

source:merinews