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| Resolution of J&K | | Aziz eats his words, says Pak will talk to Hurriyat | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 3: On September 27, Pakistan National Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz candidly acknowledged that the meetings between the Kashmiri separatists and Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi were ill-timed. "These meetings could have been avoided.
Perhaps, timing was not appropriate for such meetings. The meetings could have been held later," he told an Indian correspondent in New York.
Aziz in a way admitted that the meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and Hurriyat leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Faroq, Shabir Ahmad Shah and Yasin Malik, which took place on September 18 and 19 in Delhi despite the Indian Foreign Office's clear directions to the contrary, led to the cancellation of the scheduled Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan. The talks were to take place on September 25 at Islamabad, but it didn't happen because the Indian Foreign Office took these meetings as blatant interference in the internal affairs of India. It was a right step in the right direction and it showed Islamabad its rightful place.
Sartaj Aziz had regretted the meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and anti-India and sectarian Hurriyat leaders, following the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden address to the United Nations General assembly (UNGA) on September 27, which had also tore into his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif's September 26 nasty address to the global body on Jammu & Kashmir. Narendra Modi had candidly told the UNGA -- and through it to Pakistan -- that Jammu & Kashmir was a bilateral issue and it would not help Pakistan if it raked the so-called Kashmir issue in the international body. Besides, without naming the Hurriyat leaders, Narendra Modi gave the international community to understand that for the Government of India the Hurriyat leaders were persona non-grata.
It was hoped that Sartaj Aziz would respect his views on to mollify the outraged Indian sentiment, but it was not to be. Just five days later on October 2, he shamelessly ate his words and declared that Pakistan would continue to talk to the Hurriyat leaders as they were the genuine representative of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Not just this, he made one more provocative statement, saying the meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and anti-India and sectarian Hurriyat leaders was "not a big deal", as such meetings took place umpteen times during the past 20 years. It is manifestly clear that Sartaj Aziz ate his words five days later under pressure from the Pakistani Army, the dreaded Inter-Service Intelligence and terrorists like Laskar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed, who is close to Mian Nawaz Sharif. Whatever the case, by eating his solemn words, Sartaj Aziz has further lowered the position of Pakistan in the eyes of the civilized world. He once proved that Pakistan is an irresponsible state and that it doesn't mean what it says. Indeed, it's advantage New Delhi. |
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