From: Habib Yousafzai <yousafzai49@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Why we can't abandon Kashmir now!
Why we can't abandon Kashmir now!
S.B. Cadri
Dear Sir,You can't abandon Kashmir now! The bag is full of missed opportunities...You can't abandon Kashmir now after so much loss of life. It is like admission of the fact that we were just not up to it, that we were on the wrong just because we did not pursue it as it should have been at the international level. Our Government, our diplomacy, our media management internationally totally failed us. We never had our priorities right.We missed many chances of getting it. First opportunity was offered in 1962 when China had attacked India. Ayub Khan missed it. Second 1965 it was done without taking Kashmiris in confidence. They made a public issue in the world of "infiltration" and whatever little we won on the battlefield was lost on the table. Third was as late as 2001 when US needed us soon after 9/11. We should have bargained for help on Kashmir. http://thinker-thinkingoutofthebox.blogspot.com/2007/10/musharrafs-mistakes-2-continued.htmlEarlier Kargil was not an opportunity but a debacle. Yet media mileage could have been got from it. Lemonade out of a lemon. We lost Siachen by just not being there (laziness) and India went and occupied it. It was aggression by India. We never made an issue in the world press of Indian aggression. It all adds up against us. We never act in time and love to blame someone else for our inaction and gross mistakes.In the meanwhile we have got hundreds of thousands killed in Kashmir. We did not move the world. We did not tell effectively of India's State Terrorism. Instead India let the world know that we were doing "Cross Border Terrorism". We did not have the sense to counter that in the first place that it was not a border but just a line of control.We did not tell the world why India has a million forces in a small place like Kashmir and not in UP or Bihar for instance. This is proof of the fact that all is not well there. People don't want you there. You are ruling against their will by force. We did not repeatedly tell the world and make an issue of it. Finally it is the public pressure internationally we create that matters. If we don't who is to blame.Our diplomats and Press Attaches are of so low quality that all they want is their salaries and perks. Period. They just do not do their job. They want to enjoy foreign postings. In contrast, Indians in their embassies and consulates do their job.
You see the results in the media of the world as well as in the media of most Muslim Countries. For instance for 40 years Indians (Hindus) have had a total sway on Saudi Arabian and UAE media. All stories that matter are carried from an Indian point of view, not Pakistan's. Tell me when all (non-Muslims included) are reading it, hearing it, what perception does it create? Positive for India and negative for Pakistan. It hurts.As if that was not bad enough we had this Mid-Eastern issue based terrorism in Pakistan. While the issue is Mid-Eastern, not a single Mid-Eastern country is afflicted by it but we are. Wo log tho saf nikal gaye aur hum phans gaye. They escaped while thrusting that problem on us. Now that has put a huge spanner in the wheel we don't often realize. It has impacted the Kashmir problem most adversely.We can't give up Kashmir because:
Pakistan was created on the basis of Muslim majority areas. Kashmir was and is a Muslim majority area. Giving it up is negating our own existence.
Secondly we have a responsibility towards the people of Kashmir who are divided. We have to unite them. They have suffered a lot and we have to alleviate their suffering. If we are selfish we will not.
Thirdly all rivers come from there, we cannot allow India to decide our destiny and when and how much water we should get.
Last but not the least, tourism. India is pocketing all the dollars and Euros while that money belongs to the Kashmiris.We don't exploit the opportunity because at the appropriate forums and time our leadership does not say what it should. Democracy is much touted about. They went to war in Iraq apparently for democracy. Tell the world "Why not a democratic Solution" in Kashmir as Tony Blair once said. We did not catch it, build on it and cash it.Now recently they slammed cruise missiles on Libya under the pretext that Gaddafi is killing the citizens. Why did we not go and make a big hue and cry that India is also killing similarly and for God's sake go and save them. Get a million army out of there. If India does not listen, use force.If we the sovereign Pakistan does not raise this issue, why others will? We kept mum and missed yet another opportunity. This opportunity still exists. Make use of it even now and stop blaming others for our own woes.Opportunities keep coming our way, we miss them all and love to blame the enemy or friends.
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From: joseel1011@hotmail.com
To: pakpotpourri1@googlegroups.com
Subject: INDIA -PAKISTAN TO PUSH FOR PEACE
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:53:07 +0000
India, Pakistan to push for peace
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir during a joint news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad on Friday. (Reuters)
By AZHAR MASOOD | ARAB NEWS
Published: Jun 24, 2011 22:03 Updated: Jun 24, 2011 22:04
ISLAMABAD: High-level peace talks between India and Pakistan ended here on Friday with both the countries agreeing to work on new confidence-building measures.
Both sides reiterated their intention to carry forward the dialogue process in a constructive and purposeful manner and expand trade and travel across the cease-fire line dividing disputed Kashmir.
The agreements were made at a meeting between the two countries' top diplomats — Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir. Contacts between the two nuclear-armed neighbors are nevertheless considered key to easing tensions in South Asia.
The talks mark a revival of a tentative peace process, which collapsed two years ago after gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in November 2008 in attacks that India blamed on Pakistani extremists.
The talks made better progress than expected, with India and Pakistan issuing a joint statement and the foreign secretaries appearing at a previously unscheduled joint news conference.
In their statement, the foreign secretaries said that India and Pakistan would work to build confidence over their nuclear and conventional weapons capability.
A meeting of experts would be held "to consider additional measures... to build trust and confidence and promote peace and security," the statement said. The foreign secretaries also agreed to hold a meeting of experts to promote trade and travel across the Line of Control, the cease-fire line which divides Kashmir.
"We must help the people of Jammu and Kashmir to connect with each other; to travel, to trade," Rao said at the news conference.
After many false starts in peace talks in the past, expectations for the foreign secretaries' meeting had been kept deliberately low in both countries.
However, a carefully worded joint statement listed no concrete agreement other than a commitment to meet again in New Delhi, at a date yet to be announced, to prepare for a pre-arranged foreign ministers' meeting in July.
The statement said talks were "frank and cordial."
However, India remains deeply concerned about terrorism from Pakistan, exacerbated by the US discovery of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan last month, and Pakistan still considers India its primary threat despite a Taleban insurgency at home.
Rao also met with Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar
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