Sub: - At SAARC, Pakistan inflicted insult to injuries of Kashmiris.
Dear Sir
As per Sunday news in prominent Indian media, Pakistan demanded that first Kashmir problem be solved before any thing such as trade, joint anti %u2013 terrorism measures etc. is taken up at SAARC summit.
Even common sense dictates that unless grave disputes like Kashmir problem is solved there can be no worthwhile trade etc. between contending nations especially when they are nuclear powers and a last word is yet to be written on their partition.
But the confusion about non relevance of Kashmir solution was spread by unrealistic shift in Pakistan policies who suddenly started believing that CBMs and some funny ideas such as joint control, irrelevance of borer etc will ultimately solve Kashmir problem.
Any body who thought that Kashmir problem could be solved by such gimmicks of India & Pakistan then he was living in his own make believe world in view of the following:-
(1)- Kashmir problem can not be solved unless Kashmir is reunified.
(2)- But on one side Hindu majority India is simply not interested in retrieving its lost territory of Muslim majority POK and on other side India will never compromise on its territorial integrity which implies that whole of J&K (including POK is an integral part of India). Whereas Pakistan does not have adequate military power to snatch remaining Kashmir from India.
(3)- Kashmir problem got exacerbated mainly due to confusion created by India by participating in the UN proceedings of plebiscite (despite constitutional mandate of sovereignty which debars Government of India from taking part in such UN proceedings in view of constitutional provisions of entire J&K including POK as an integral part of India). Even worst, despite provision of sedition under section 124 %u2013 A of Indian Penal Code, India still talks to separatist from J&K as if India%u2019s territorial integrity & sovereignty is negotiable.
(4)- Kashmiris have run out of their steam due to senseless armed struggle (supported mainly by Pakistan sponsored fundamentalists on both sides of LOC) in which Kasmiris have already lost tens of thousands of their youth and have procured grave colossal miseries for Kashmiris.
(5)- Surviving Kashmiris on both sides of LOC owe it to these departed souls that Kashmir problem is solved.
(6)- Hence the moral responsibility & key to Kashmir solution lies only with Pakistan whose interest and initiative will ultimately decide the fate of Kashmir problem.
Hence people of J&K on the eve of SAARC got cheered up because they thought that said delay tactics of India & Pakistan in relation to solving Kashmir problem were ultimately over. Pakistan seemed to have woken up (Kashmiris hoped, permanently) to the reality that enough is enough and now some serious & tough talks, on Kashmir issue, with India (even at forums like SAARC) will be in order.
But to the dismay of Kashmiris, Pakistan did not wake up permanently as it did not insist in the real sense of the term, at SAARC summit, on first resolving the Kashmir dispute.
This tantamount to Pakistan inflicting insult to injuries of Kashmiris
Yours truly
Hem Raj Jain 208, Supriya, Plot #20, Sector %u2013 10, Dwarka, New Delhi -110075, INDIA . Ph:- 91 11 32940177
