Pakistan today has three ‘issues’ to resolve with India.
Number one: The unfinished agenda regarding plebiscite in Kashmir as promised in the UN Security Council Resolutions of 1948-49.
That Kashmir is up in flames and getting submerged in blood 66 years later shows how miserably the world community in general and the governments of Pakistan (one after the other) in particular have failed to provide justice to the enslaved millions of Muslims in the Indian-occupied territory.
The blood-bath being carried out by the Indian army in Kashmir is a cruel reminder to the world that the flames rising in the valley can turn into a vast world-embracing conflagration.
Number Two: India’s criminal and provocative activities in Baluchistan to subvert Pakistan’s National integrity. These activities stand personified today in one name— Kabhushan Yadav.
Number Three: India’s massive international campaign to link Pakistan with terrorism, so that the world community is made to overlook India’s involvement in mobilized and organized support to the terrorist groups that operate in Pakistan.
Our Prime Minister’s speech did address the issue number one— probably because he had no other option. But he did not touch the other two issues— certainly for the reason that he can ill-afford to annoy Prime Minister Modi of India whose pleasure is essential to the success of his family’s India-related business interests. The Prime Minister’s speech does not fail to bring to my mind the kind of opposition that Syed Khurshid Shah is ‘offering’ to the government. Prime Minister Modi of India will not mind dealing with a Khurshid Shah in Islamabad.
