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2006-01-08 India-Pakistan

India should pull out troops from J&K: Iâll fight terrorists instead, says Musharraf

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Posted by john 2006-01-08 10:36|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Pak newspaper The Nation has an editorial on this

Incomprehensible!

While one can understand the Presidentâs proposal that India withdraw its armed forces from Srinagar, Kupwara and Baramulla, one wonders how he would ensure the end of militancy that is entirely indigenous in nature.

'cause it isn't and Perv has now implicitly admitted it

The departure of troops from these main towns, which constitute the hub of resistance, would not mean the end of Indian rule. There will remain other security forces like the police and the puppet government and its agencies to do New Delhiâs bidding, and they would be considered legitimate targets by the freedom fighters, who would be content with nothing short of separation from India. Besides, how would the assurance of an end to resistance square with our contention that it is purely indigenous? Similarly incomprehensible is his idea of joining India to fight âterrorismâ in Kashmir. Would that involve sending Pakistani troops in the Valley to help India stamp out the freedom struggle and would an arrogant, sovereign state like India accept foreign presence on a territory it claims its integral part? Or are we talking about intelligence sharing, or handing over Kashmiris for internment in some Indian Abu Ghraib? The idea of ending the Kashmirisâ struggle with an outside help is a non-starter unless implemented in the overall context of completely winding up the Indian occupation.
New Delhi has not taken long to turn down the proposal, maintaining that demilitarisation or redeployment of security forces was based on the assessment of the security situation and was a sovereign decision. Not only that. External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna accused Pakistan of âcrossborder terrorism and violence perpetrated by Pakistan-based terrorist groupsâ when he remarked that as long as that continued, India would fulfil its responsibility to safeguard the lives and security of its citizens. He also rejected the self-government proposal, saying that the âstate already enjoyed autonomy.â With these ground realities and the Presidentâs own disappointment at the lack of Indian response on the core issue, the whole peace process that appeared flawed right from the start is fast dissolving into futility. The only beneficiary from the CBMs has been India, which has skilfully broken our resistance to developing commercial relations and initiating people-to-people contacts to the neglect of settling not only Kashmir but also other issues like Sir Creek, Siachen and water disputes. It has persisted in brutally suppressing the Kashmiris, while extracting one concession after another from Islamabad, even making it dilute its principled stand on the right of self-determination.
Instead of meeting Pakistan half way, it has continued in its old game of fomenting trouble within Pakistan as the President has told the CNN/IBN channel about Indiaâs involvement in Balochistan. It is time Pakistan held a thorough review of the peace process and disabused itself of the notion that the course it adopted can ever lead to an equitable solution of the Kashmir dispute. There should be frank discussion on these issues, including the evidence of Indiaâs involvement in Balochistan, with Dr Manmohan Singh, when he visits Pakistan next month.

Posted by john 2006-01-08 16:16|| 2006-01-08 16:16|| Front Page Top

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