Moscow’s first reaction to the recent Kashmir crisis is at variance with the stand adopted by Beijing on it. It has asked both Pakistan and India to resolve their disputes in the spirit of Simla Accord as well as Lahore Declaration.
Simla Accord and Lahore declaration, may one point out, have been blown to smithereens by New Delhi by its unilateral action in the occupied Valley of Kashmir on 5th August 2019. Kashmir issue will now be tackled in the light of UN resolutions.
Shah Mahmood QureshI should have airdashed to Moscow also soon after his sojourn to Beijing for taking into confidence the Russian president Putin. Needless to say that during the past twenty years or so no government in this country has sincerely tried to bridge differences with Moscow and remove misunderstandings in the heart of Soviet leadership about our blind allegiance to Washington. Had we too followed similar policy which the Indian leadership adopted after 1947 by keeping both Washington and Moscow in good humour instead of placing all our eggs in the America ‘s basket, there would have been a different story to tell today. It was a folly on our part to give an airbase to the Americans near Peshawar from where an American spy plane use to fly over Soviet union for taking photographs of Soviet military installations. It was also politically wrong to conduct a proxy war on behalf of the Americans against the Russians in 1980s. We have to pay a heavy price for it both in terms of money and human lives for a country like America which has never proved to be our good friend otherwise it would not have left us in the lurch in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
All is, however, not lost yet. Better late than never. Ground realities today have changed considerably. Moscow and Beijing look Eye to eye on many world issues. A triumvirate of these countries can become a force to reckon with and if Iran too joins it so much the better.
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