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By Allabaksh
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, says Pakistan is not ‘desperate’ to talk to India. Yet, desperation is visible behind Aziz’s rant against India. He is echoing the exasperation of his country as it witnesses that while Washington is getting closer to Delhi even the ‘all weather’ friend China shows its annoyance with Pakistan for continued support to selective terror groups and has gone to the town blaming Lashkar-e-Toiba for the 26/11 mayhem perpetrated in Mumbai eight years ago. In addition, any relaxation in relations between India and China makes the paranoiac Pakistan nervous.
Pakistan has been watching with dismay how India is getting closer to joining almost all the groups dealing with nuclear trade and technology. The Chinese resistance against India’s march on this route is hardly a consolation for Pakistan because it remains stranded where it has been for some years—in the nuclear dog house.
But perhaps what rattles the Pakistanis the most is that India has been getting closer to some of the Muslim countries in its extended western neighbourhood. As the self-styled custodian of the Muslim world, Pakistan cannot bear the thought of a country of Kafirs (infidels) getting closer to the Muslim world, more so when the present leader of India is widely seen as a ‘Muslim hater’.
Pakistan has been berating India for not holding bilateral dialogue after its non-state actor assets attacked the Pathankot air base in January this year. India has good reasons to close the ‘window of opportunity’ for talks till the Pakistanis stop playing their perfidious games.
Each time India and Pakistan begin to talk, the non-state actor terrorist warriors are sent to attack civilian and security targets across India to kill people and spread destruction. That much for the Pakistani commitment to ‘dialogue’ and peace—a strange word from Pakistani mouths!
When India protests, the Pakistanis, joined by the ‘peaceniks’ in India, ask for the dialogue to be continued because the terrorist attacks are allegedly carried out by ‘non-state actors’ who do not want relations between the two countries to be ‘normal’.
Enough of this bunkum! These so-called non-state actors in Pakistan cannot survive and cross the border into India without the active help of the Pakistani military and intelligence or the so called GHQ Shura and the whole world knows that the Land of the Pure is the global nursery of terror.
The deliberate acts of provocation like a terrorist attack on India is carried out with the knowledge and approval of the entire Pakistani establishment—military as well as the civilian government. Let there be no doubt that both the civilian government of Pakistan and its military are on the same page in using terror against India.
The chief patrons of the terror networks operating out of Pakistan sit in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, next to the seat of the civilian government. Jaish-e-Mohammed, the outfit that left its clear footprints in the Pathankot attack, is one of the many pets of the notorious ISI, and is based in Southern Punjab, which is the backyard of the Sharif brothers. If the Jaish is a ‘benevolent’ organization, as the Pakistanis claim, then why do the US and the UN think otherwise?
The point is that it may be convenient and even necessary for an isolated Pakistan to pass the blame on to a ‘non-state actor’, India cannot buy that fiction to continue an ‘uninterrupted’ and ‘uninterruptible’ dialogue with the malevolent, rogue neighbour that aims at destroying India, however fanciful the idea may look.
The ‘window of opportunity’ for talks with Pakistan has been kept open many times in the past, but each time it failed to lower the tension in the bilateral relations because Pakistan would not give up its policy of ‘bleeding India with a thousand cuts’.
Anyone who knows anything about Pakistan knows that regardless of who rules the country, the real power is exercised by the Army in all matters concerning security and relations with India and some other countries. The Pakistani army is not willing to surrender its considerable clout in most crucial matters by allowing the civilian dispensation to talk peace with India.
There have been suggestions that India should talk to the Pakistani Generals. India cannot talk directly to the Pakistani army as long as Pakistan claims to be governed by an elected civilian government. Not for reasons of prestige or protocol but for the simple reason that it is a foregone conclusion that the Khakis in Pakistan will shoot down anything that aims at easing tension with India.
It might be said that a ‘window of opportunity’ was opened after Narendra Modi’s dramatic para-dropping at the country house of his Pakistani counterpart on Christmas Day last year. But what followed? The Pakistanis were able to fool the Modi government and managed to send some of their spooks and military men to Pathankot where, as was to be expected, they found no evidence of the involvement of the Pakistani state in the attack on the air base.
In order to further fool India and create confusion, the report prepared by the Pakistanis after visiting Pathankot has not been made public. But its contents have been leaked with the preposterous suggestion that the Pathankot attack was masterminded by India!
Pakistan has refused to allow an Indian team to visit Pakistan to collect evidence against the Jaish and its leader, Maulana Masood Azhar. It is the same Azhar whose terror team, with the help of Pakistani diplomats in Kathmandu, had hijacked an Indian plane with over 160 civilians on board in 1999 from Kathmandu to Kandahar.
New Delhi can only twiddle its thumb as Pakistan has refused to allow a reciprocal visit by an Indian team to probe the role of Jaish. Nevertheless, Islamabad has the cheek to say that there is no commitment to reciprocate the Indian gesture of letting its team visit Pathankot.
With this kind of logjam, what type of ‘window’ can be kept open? Even if India is ready to talk to the Generals, who run the country, nothing will be achieved.
The Generals are focused on getting Kashmir from India by any means; they are equally determined to protect their ‘good’ terrorists, no matter how much they are denounced in the world for this.
The Pakistan leadership hopes that the world will be impressed by their pretense of willingness to talk to India.
They are ‘desperate’ for talks, not India.
(The writer is a Free lance journalist based in Kashmir)
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