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| Under pressure, BJP decides not to send FS to Pak | | Flawed foreign policy | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 14: The Narendra Modi Government tried its level best to persuade the Indians to endorse its foreign policy towards Pakistan but with no result. The general public, strategic affairs experts and former Army Commanders didn't endorse the Government's stand on one more chance to Pakistan, saying that Pakistan was not trustworthy and that talks with Pakistan could be held only after it handed over the perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack, including Masood Azhar, to India.
The BJP sought to gave the wounded nation to understand that Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif had promised action against the Pakistani terrorists, who attacked Pathankot Air Force base and martyred seven soldiers. The BJP also used the Pakistani media reports, including the false report that Pakistan had arrested Maulana Masood Azhar, to convince the Indian public and think-tanks that Pakistan this time was serious and it meant business. Interestingly, the Pakistan Foreign Office on Thursday feigned ignorance over the so-called arrest of Azhar and other terrorists involved in the Pathankot terror attack, which embarrassed the BJP. In addition, the BJP tried the Indian nation to understand that the Pakistani Army this time was also on the board, as the Pakistan Prime Minister's National Security Advisor was a former Army General.
None in India bought any of the arguments advanced by the BJP in its desperate bid to mislead the country. The result was that the Indian Foreign Office and the Pakistan foreign Office, which, it seems, were working in tandem, today said that the Foreign Secretary-level meeting between the two countries stood postponed.
Talks between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan scheduled here on Friday have been rescheduled, the Foreign Office announced on Thursday.
"Both countries are in contact to firm up the dates for the meeting of the two foreign secretaries," Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah told the media here. "Mutual consultations are on regarding the rescheduling of the talks," he added. The spokesman didn't give any reason but it followed reported Indian demands that the talks can go ahead only if Pakistan acts against Pakistani terrorists who plotted the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab.
Almost similar statement was made by the Indian Foreign Office in New Delhi. It said that the meeting was postponed in consultation with Pakistan and the meeting would be held after both the countries decide the next date. It also said that it didn't know if Pakistan had arrested or not arrested Azhar and other terrorists.
The postponement of the meeting could be construed as a victory of the Indian nation which was against the idea of talks with Pakistan. The Indian nation wants stringent action against Pakistan; it wants New Delhi to unleash surgical strikes in Pakistan so that the terror training camps in Pakistan and PoK were destroyed and the perpetrators of terror attacks in India were nabbed and brought to justice or liquidated in Pakistan itself. This is the impact of the national mode in India. |
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