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Congress unlikely to consider PK's stand on cross LoC trade Seizure of narcotics 1/27/2014 11:15:29 PM Neha JAMMU, Jan 27: The other day, the premier organization of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, Panun Kashmir (PK), urged the Congress-led UPA Government to rethink and recast its foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan as well as Jammu and Kashmir "before it is too late". What made the PK leaders like Ajay Chrungoo to doubt the intentions of Islamabad and urge the UPA Government to review its policy towards Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir was the very recent seizure of huge quantities of narcotics from a truck commissioned to carry trade items from PoJK to India across the Line of Control (LoC). The PK leaders were right when they said that the "seizure of narcotics has raised serious questions about the entire character of cross LoC trade flaunted as one of the successful components of the peace engagement with Pakistan" and that "the detention of scores of Indian drivers by the Pakistani Government as a response to the arrest of the Pakistani driver, in whose truck brown sugar worth crores was recovered, is, in fact, a very eloquent repudiation of the peace process which India claims it is pursuing with Pakistan". They also hit the nail on the head when they asserted that the "Pakistani Government has so many times in the recent past repudiated and rejected the peace process with India and that the Pakistani Government demonstrated its opposition to the so-called peace process with India through its National Assembly and at various international forums as well as by enacting acts of terrorism inside the State and aggression along the LoC, including murder and decapitation of the martyred soldiers. But more than that, the PK leaders hit the nail on the head when they questioned the very intentions of the Congress-led UPA Government and asserted that its "soft approach" towards Islamabad "is not seen as its commitment to peace but as its weakness to stand up to challenges which endanger peace". The PK has no hesitation in saying that policies of Government of India on Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir have proved counterproductive and it rejects outrightly the claims of Government of India that "its handling of Pakistan or the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir has contributed to peace and national interests as the entire process has jeopardized both peace and the national interests". One can only hope and pray that the UPA Government would take cognizance of the failure of its policy vis-a-vis Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir and adopt a policy that protects and advances further the country's paramount interests in the region.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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