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| Meeting between Manmohan, Sharif at New York | | Congress seems out to outrage the nation | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 24: Only in January this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had stated that there could not be business as usual with Pakistan following the Mendhar gory incident that culminated in the gruesome murder of Lance Naik Hem Raj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh and their decapitation and beheading of Hem Raj. On January 8, the Pakistani barbarians had breached the line of Control, entered deep inside the Indian territories and attacked the Indian soldiers. The barbarous attack had outraged the nation with the angry Indians demanding stringent action againstPakistan so that the murders of the Indian soldiers on duty could be avenged and Islamabad taught a lesson. The Prime Minister opened his mouth after many days and said that New Delhi could not engage with Pakistan as Pakistan had failed address the Indian concerns.
It now appears that Manmohan Singh was not committed to what he had said and that what he had said was only an attempt to mislead and hoodwink the wounded nation. Reports which emanated from New York and Islamabad on Monday and were published prominently in many dailies clearly suggest that the Indian Prime Minister will meet his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 29 and have one-on-one talks with him. Both Singh and Sharif, who are travelling to New York to attend the 68th session of UN General Assembly, will be meeting on the morning of September 29" in a hotel, the report said. Besides, the two Premiers will also have delegation-level talks. The report further said that "the much-awaited and widely discussed maiden meeting between Sharif and his Indian counterpart Singh on the margins of the 68th UNGA has been scheduled as the two premiers will be having a breakfast meeting in Manhattan Hotel where the Indian Prime Minister will be the host".
Islamabad has confirmed these reports but New Delhi hasn't for reasons not really difficult to fathom. But one thing is certain: The Indian Prime Minister will again disappoint the nation by meeting his Pakistani counterpart Sharif under whose regime the anti-India activities have increased manifold. The Sharif government not only passed an atrocious anti-India resolution on Jammu & Kashmir on August 13 but has repeatedly made its intentions clear by asserting and reasserting the Jammu & Kashmir was the core issue and New Delhi must engage with Islamabad to settle the issues of Kashmir, Sir Creek, Siachen and Indus waters. Besides, the Pakistani Army backed by terror organizations like Lashkar-e-Toiba have been violating ceasefire on a daily basis. That Pakistan has no regard for the India-Pakistan truce on ceasefire could be seen from the fact that the Pakistani Army violated ceasefire as many as 19 times in just 22 days between September 1st and 22nd.
The meeting between the two Prime Ministers will be construed as yet another diplomatic victory of Islamabadover New Delhi. But who cares. After all, the Indian foreign policy is not based on the country's paramount national interests; our foreign policy is shaped and guided by the hostile nations like Pakistan. It's no wonder that many Indians have started saying that it is a shame to be Indians. Will the Congress and the Sonia Gandhi-controlled Prime Minister Manmohan Singh respect the nation's mood and declare that they will be no meeting Sharif who is as radical and anti-India as his predecessors were. |
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