India has expressed her willingness to talk. India’s foreign secretary Jaishankar is ready to visit Islamabad. The ‘peacemakers’ in the Prime Minister’s camp should be in a jubilant mood. These ‘peace’-makers incidentally have encircled the business-minded Prime Minister in such a way that he finds it hard to utter a single word of condemnation of Modi for the acts of butchery being committed in the occupied Kashmir. Right from the day one of his present tenure, MNS has allowed himself to be guided by the champions of Pak-India peace whose simple formula for making the rivers of ‘love’ and understanding flow between the two countries is to let the Kashmir dispute freeze to death in the cold storage and to move on towards the goal of re-discovering cultural and ideological affinities and bonds.
I remember MNS having made a memorable speech in this context in which he had quite philosophically said: “What separates us? A line. Just a line! Remove it and we are the same people with same cultures, same habits and same background.?
To remove this ‘line’, India has been investing billions since long. It is the two-nation theory that created this line—- that divided India in 1947—- and that is the key factor beneath and behind the Kashmir issue.
Through its well-funded ‘peace-makers’ in Pakistan, India has been able to find in Mian Nawaz Sharif, a befitting executor of its ideas and designs.
Translated into Urdu the peace-makers mean “Ambassadors of Aman Ki Asha”.
The likes of Najam Sethi— Asma Jahangir and all the Geo-ideologues etc.
To make their plan work successfully these ‘peace-makers’ persuaded MNS in the very beginning not to have a Foreign Minister, and to keep the job in his own hands. MNS has managed to run the foreign ministry on adhoc basis—- distributing the ‘tasks’ between Tariq Fatmi and Sartaj Aziz as per merit. The latest entry in this team is a PM house clerk named Mussadak ‘some-thing’, who, the other day, has issued a ‘policy’ statement on the Prime Minister’s resolve to keep providing the people of Kashmir all the needed moral and political support.
The Prime Minister is obviously trying to fill in the blanks. He wants to be seen as a champion of the Kashmir cause.
The best way to do it will be to issue a sharp rejoinder and rebuff to India for its efforts to make ‘cross-border’ terrorism’ as the proposed talks’ agenda.
This is a genuinely indigenous struggle for freedom in Kashmir. And this is unadulterated genocide being committed by the Indian army occupying Kashmir.
It is no time to go for bilateral talks. It is time to knock fiercely at the doors of the United Nations and the world conscience.
Dear Prime Minister, here is a golden opportunity for you to prove, you are not a traitor to the Kashmir cause— also to prove that you are not Modi’s man.
