Over the weekend, I came across some interesting (from an Indian perspective) statements from the PPP co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari.
Zardari said, "I am not getting hostage to that issue. The idea is that we feel for Kashmir, the PPP has always felt for Kashmir. We have a strong Kashmir policy, we've always had one."
"But having said that, we don't want to be hostage to that situation. That is a situation we can agree to disagree (on). Countries do, we have positions, and you have positions. We can agree to disagree on everything."
Zardari said India and Pakistan could "agree to disagree on (the UN resolutions), we can wait, we can be patient till everybody grows up further, maybe the coming generation grows up even further and then let's interact as human beings and come to a position of love."
I looked at the reaction from some "Kashmiri Leaders",
- The pro-freedom parties in Kashmir today described Pakistan Peoples Party's co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari's statement of sidelining Kashmir as "unrealistic and dangerous" and accused him of undermining the legacy of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had vowed to "fight 1,000 year war" with India. Not sure what Mr. Bhutto's legacy is in Pakistan. "It is against the interests of Kashmir and Pakistan," the chairman of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat and his faction of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Mr. Geelani is an idiot of the first order, in my humble opinion.
