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| India vis-à-vis Pak in the words of Pak diplomat | | Attitude of international community | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 6 : Pakistan cannot handle India and impose its Kashmir solution on New Delhi because Islamabad stands isolated and the international community at this point in time is favorably inclined towards India. This is not the view from India; this is the view from Pakistan and the man who has expressed these views is none other than a Pakistani diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi -- former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.
The other day he wrote thus: "India's greater size and international influence will always count against it. Unfortunately, Pakistan's national policies have seldom had longer-term coherence mainly because it has been prevented from developing democratic and responsible governance. No military ruler of Pakistan is positively remembered. Pakistan's nuclear deterrence does not provide an equalizer vis-à-vis India except in extremis.
This allows India to gain from limited conflicts and confrontations such as have recently occurred. India's superior conventional military strength and international image enable it to raise the ante in such situations without incurring significant diplomatic costs. Pakistan does not have this liberty. Modi wishes to convert this advantage into a Kashmir settlement on his terms. If Pakistan's decision-making can become more democratic, responsible and transparent this will not happen".
Qazi also bemoaned the limitations of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and also questioned his personality. He said: "Nawaz Sharif is being advised not to take any initiative to meet Modi or explore possibilities for the resumption of an agenda-based dialogue. He has been badly bruised by recent political developments and feels vulnerable to charges of weakness vis-à-vis India. He appears so risk-averse he will not even pursue his own preferred policies. This reduces his credibility at home and abroad. Accordingly, the advice given him is wrong. It neither enhances Pakistan's diplomatic nor military options. Instead, it compromises Pakistan's development prospects which would certainly diminish in an environment of active hostility with India".
Not only this, the former diplomat also said without mincing words that Pakistan carries little international credibility. "Pakistan will need to eschew its own provocations. Its denials and counter-arguments carry little international credibility because of its international isolation. This has to change if it is to garner greater international understanding for its policy positions. Ultimately, these strategies will not work if India refuses to accord priority to improving relations with Pakistan and seeking negotiated and mutually acceptable solutions to issues that can further 'bedevil' the relationship. Modi does not appear to be a likely partner in such an endeavour. Hopefully, this is not a given. Many in Pakistan compare him unfavourably with Vajpayee forgetting that Vajpayee finally accused Pakistan of 'stabbing him in the back' in Kargil shortly after Lahore".
What Ashraf Jehangir Qazi said was self-explanatory. But the question to be asked is: Will the Army, the Taliban and the Lashkar-controlled Islamabad change its style of functioning? The answer is a big NO. Pakistan is rogue, failed and unnatural state and it would be too much to expect that it would become responsible. On the other hand, India has got in the person of Narendra Modi Prime Minister who means business. |
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