Pakistan to India: No lectures or cosmetic engagements

Pakistan to India: No lectures or cosmetic engagements

March 3, 2010
by Moin Ansari Rupee News

The failure of the Bharati administration to hold Pakistan hostage to Mumbai has failed miserably. The Bharati (aka Indian) administration has been taken to task in parliament and in the media.

• Pakistan did not want India to “lecture” it to “do this or that” and rejected further “cosmetic engagements”

• Advani said the only concrete outcome of the 500-word statement was the foreign secretaries’ agreement “to stay in touch”.

• “Is dialogue linked with Pakistan’s abandoning terrorism, or have the two been de-linked as clearly said by our PM at Sharm el-Sheikh?

• The BJP veteran goes on to re-assert his earlier remark that the Indian government’s U-turn on dialogue with Pakistan seems to be the upshot of “Washington’s nudge”

• In this latest one, there is nothing but contradictions and obfuscation.”

There is a dearth of vision in Delhi–where dialogue with Pakistan or China is seen as a reward for good behavior, as if relations with Delhi are part of some “Most Favored Nation” status by economic giants like the USA. Bharat as a large country has border disputes with all her neighbors and does not have the ability or the will to resolve issues with any of her neighbors.

Why can’t Bharat break of the siege mentality and think big beyond its nose. Three are multiple reasons for the self incarceration. A vibrant but xenophobic media still keeps the habits of a totalitarian Nehurite era. The government is still stuck in the bureaucratic Cold War mentality which thinks of all relations are zero sum. The public brian washed by the temples into thinking that the boundaries of Bharat extend from Kabul to Raj Kalhani (a mythical land East of Bali). Bigots today run Gujarat and Maharashtra, important and affluent states. These states are pushing Bhrat towards a more Hindu only paradigm where all other religions are considered alien. Last week, one of Bharat’s icons F.M. Husain announced that he had renounced his citizenship and escaped to live in Qatar. Mr. Shahrukh Khan, the most popular Bharati actor worth million s was threatened by the Shiv Sena and asked to leave Bharat. These types of incidents keep the Bharati state department on their toes.

The blowing up the Samjhota Express by the Saffron brigade with links or tentacles into the Indian Army cast doubt on the assertions made by the government about Mumbai. Bharat loses its moral authority when 3000 Muslims are killed and burned in Gujarat and when 800,000 Indian soldiers occupy Kashmir. Most regions now want 50 states in Bharat asking for varying degrees of distance from Delhi–Kashmir and Assam totally rejecting any participation in the Indian Union–the Maoists who control 40% of the landmass of India want to overthrow the government.

All these factors create huge issues for Bharat when it tries to negotiate with Pakistan. Delhi has been using talks to delay implementing UN resolutions on Kashmir which essentially uphold democratic principles of plebiscite and referendums. Nehruite India used talks to postpone the referendum using excuses like rigged elections to obfuscate the issue. Kashmir has not died down–in fact it keeps half the Indian army busy in the valley that it occupies. Eery few weeks Kashmir boils, and Bharat blames outsiders.

Pakistan’s new found assertive stance with Bhrat stems from its successes in Swat and FATA where is has wiped out the Indian sponsored agents. Just this week the Pakistani Crescent and Star flew in Damadola where Indian arms and explosives were found–obviously handed over to anti-Pakistani TTP elements that the Indian agency called RAW sponsors.

The solutions to Kashmir are many and very simple. The state should be divided into Pakistan and Indian parts based on language. Most of the Muslims speak Urdu which is also the state language of Kashmir. The Hindus speak Hindi–therefore the Chena river should be the new international boundary between the two countries with the Hindi speaking districts of Jammu going to India and the Urdu speaking districts going to Pakistan. This would end the strife and free 800,000 of the Indian Army. Sir Creek and Siachin can be solved in a day with compromises found on the banks of the creeks without jeopardizing the continental shelf, and withdrawal of forces and declaration of Siachin as a neuetral territory.

But all this requires courage, determination and keeping the extremists at bay on both sides. That courage is absent in a proxy Prime Minister in India who works on scripts from the Nehru dynasty’s mother hen Ms. Sonia Gandhi. With a crown prince in apprenticeship, the latest Gandhi wants to take over Delhi in the next elections and send Mr. Manmohan SIngh into retirement. The current seat warmer Prime Minister cannot take any bold steps. His previous meetings with the Pakistani leadership were total fiascos–where he was taken to task by the Pakistanis, the world and his own opposition in Bharat.

Peace is not in sight in South Asia–and Bharat is the reason why South Asia is the only island of poverty in Asia.