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| A great shift in PM Modi's J&K, Pak policy | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 26: It was on August 13 last that Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised the whole nation by raking up PoJK, Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan and that too during the all-party meeting held at his official residence to discuss Kashmir unrest. The Congress, the Left, the JDU and so on had not expected that PM Modi, instead of discussing ways and means calculated to ending the unrest in Kashmir, would raise PoJK, Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan.
That PM Modi meant what had said in the all-party meeting became clear two days later. Speaking from the ramparts of Red Fort on the Independence Day, PM Modi not only raised issues of PoJK, Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan but spoke in great details on all these three issues. In fact, he addressed the world community that day and explained away his foreign policy towards Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir, national security and the country's sovereignty.
After August 15, PM Modi also hinted that his government could withdraw MFN status from Pakistan and could also the 1960 World Bank-brokered Indus Water Treaty (IWT). Besides, September saw the Indian soldiers crossing over to PoJK, where they launched surgical strikes and killed many Pakistani soldiers and terrorists. All these were indications that PM Modi's whole attitude towards Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan had undergone a radical change.
And on Friday at Bathinda in Punjab, PM Modi roared and said India will stop the flow of water into Pakistan and supply it for farmers in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir.
Tearing into Pakistan on the issue of river water sharing and tension along the border, he said: "The water on which India has its right is flowing into Pakistan. I am committed to stop that water and bring it for our farmers in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of India," Modi told a public rally near Bathinda town after laying the foundation stone of an AIIMS. He didn't talk of IWT, but he gave a definite hint that his government could go to any extent to save India's permanent interests and interests of states of Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir. PM Modi also took on the Congress-le UPA Government and said that he was surprised that the water sharing issue had not been addressed by previous Indian governments. PM Modi said: "The governments slept in Delhi in the past. Our farmers kept crying and the water kept going to Pakistan. We will fight for the rights of our farmers.
It needs to be underlined that as per the IWT, Sutlej, Beas, Ravi - "the water of all three rivers over which our farmers have their right- is not available to them". The water of these rivers is the right of India, Indian farmers and the general populace. This water is passing through Pakistan into the sea. Neither Pakistan uses it nor our farmers can use it.
"I am moving ahead with conviction on this and have set up a task force on Indus Water Treaty," PM Modi said.
While pointing out that he was standing close to the border with Pakistan and wanted to address the people of Pakistan, PM Modi said, "people in the neighbouring country should force their rulers to fight against poverty and corruption instead of fighting with India".
PM Modi didn't stop just there. He went on to praise the Indian Army and its strength. "Look at the strength of our Army. Our soldiers did a surgical strike in a 250-km belt. Pakistan Army has seen what our Army can do. There was big turmoil (in Pakistan) and it is still not settled. Standing close to the Pakistan border, I want to address people in Pakistan. If schoolchildren are killed in Pakistan, 125 crore Indians cry for them. I want to urge the people of Pakistan to force their rulers that if they have to fight, they should fight against poverty, corruption and other evils," PM Modi said.
Not just this. He further said that "vested interests in Pakistan were trying to keep tension alive with India".
So, his message was loud and clear: His message was that Pakistan must behave failing which India will act and act in a manner that would be decisive, comprehensive and result-oriented. |
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