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| Pakistan flexible, India inflexible |
| 2006-07-21 |
| Khaled Ahmed’s Analysis A lot of people in Pakistan say that the Indo-Pak process of normalisation is at an end because India has not reciprocated Pakistan’s ‘flexibility’ on Kashmir. Pakistan’s foreign minister Mr Khursheed Kasuri has gone so far as to say that Pakistan and India may go back to being hostile towards each other. He actually pointed to the tendency in the bilateral relationship to dip suddenly into the negative, meaning thereby that if it happened this time, it would be nothing new. Musharraf’s policy towards India has come under attack because of India’s failure to match Musharraf’s flexibility. It was a tough choice for President Musharraf when he began violating the catechism on Kashmir. He may have started veering away from the traditional stance on Kashmir after the Kargil Operation, but the change came more overtly after 9/11. There was a sharp reaction against him for this, but a number of factors helped him change the hard line on Kashmir. First of course was the factor of the failure of covert war. It was virtually declared terrorism after 9/11, and the world balked at a reference to it after that. The mercenaries, labelled as mujahideen, had been successfully prevented by India from separating Held Kashmir from India and joining it to Pakistan. The second factor was the emergence of the indigenous Kashmiri resistance as the third party to the dispute outside of the UN resolutions. |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 I think India's still flexible and willing to deal with you Pakis, right after you cowards get the F**K out of Kashmir. As usual, all problems were instigated and perpetrated by Pakland and can be solved when all Pakis there are terminated or they slink away with their tails between their legs. End of negotiations. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-07-21 19:42 |