Is Not Cancellation of Meeting Is More of Face Saver for Antony's Faux Pas ?
The rosy story of most successful India-Pakistan dialogue process period till 2008, was abruptly abandoned at the 26/11 attacks, and again the prospective fresh dialogue summit supposed to take place in September this year with the incumbent new Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif, has been cancelled by the reluctant and silent Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his address to the nation from Lal Killa on 67th Independence Day Celebration , amid nation wide protest and opposition after the ambush and killing of six Indian soldiers by the Pakistani troops in the disguise of terrorists.
The current episode needs an analytical analysis in the prospective of the circumstances and history of last one decade, when several peace processes were initiated and but abruptly left for reasons one or another and dumped for long periods till again a fresh change in atmosphere takes place.
The ups and downs in this traverse journey of such animated peace dialogues always leave behind some traces, some puzzling links, a difficult task for the political strategists to ponder over the ultimate reasons behind the game , but fail substantially in pinpointing the true play behind the scene, at least for the vast knowledge in public domain. Repeating the same story one may put the few pointer case scenario relating the recent attack on Indian soldiers at the LoC as below.
a) The attack was managed by the Pakistan Army in knowledge of Nawaz Sharif, as the new prime minister want to secure his position among the hardliners in Pakistan, including the Army, who are visibly upset with the peace in Kashmir and their terror operations going weak. This leading to a feeling that their influence in the Kashmir Valley is slipping.
b) In the second case it may be individualistic work of the Pakistan Army only to maintain their importance in the national politics of Pakistan, that may be short of a rebuke to Sharif’s overtures to India.
c) In one of least probable possibility, this may be a local effort of Pakistani troops and the jihadi terror groups influenced by their leader Hafiz Syed's threat call, and without the knowledge of their civil bosses, or the consent and support of the Pakistan Army top brass. This is assumed scenario, with a view to the rising influence and infiltration of jihadi elements in the Pakistani army, at different levels.
In such disguised and illusory circumstances , Indian leadership has to fight hard to find a suitable future course by making a far sighted and judged decision, more importantly , it has to tackle simultaneously from both militarily, where threat of "tit for tat" may be the line of action; and diplomatically pressurising them on bilateral as well international level by accusing them while pinpointing their culpability and collusion in the crime of killing six soldiers across the border and continued violation of cease fire on LoC.
Alas ! if our Defence Minister had not blundered by the faux pas through the statement in the Indian Parliament ?
We have almost surrendered the best chance of nailing them with the crime they did so bluntly. And today decision of cancelling the summit, was more to dilute the blame earned by Mr. Antony, rather less of an judged decision, where we could have ripped open their collusive bogey in the name of Kashmir at international platform.
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