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| After Pathankot terror attack, Pak demands plebiscite in J&K | | BJP's ambivalence | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 19: Pakistan is exploiting the weak-kneed foreign policy of the Narendra Modi Government to the hilt and slowly but surely pushing forward its bleed and break-India agenda. Had the Modi Government appreciated the sentiment of the outraged nation in the wake of the deadly terror attack on the highly strategic Pathankot air force base on January 2 and acted tough against Pakistan, Islamabad would not have dared to do what it did on Monday to promote its sinister cause in the Indian Jammu & Kashmir.
Pakistan on Monday urged the UN Security Council to implement its resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir and hold a plebiscite in what it called the "disputed region".
Radio Pakistan reported that in a letter to Security Council President, Elbio Rosselli, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi said "it is a matter of the determination of future of Kashmiris". She urged the Security Council to "retain its agenda of Pakistan-India question under which resolutions were adopted for the settlement of Kashmir issue," the report said.
UN resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir, especially the one adopted by the Security Council on August 13, 1948, requires Pakistan to vacate the illegally occupied areas of Jammu & Kashmir and also permits India to station its troops to maintain law and order in the areas to be vacated by Pakistan.
The resolution also says that a plebiscite will be held in the entire State as it existed on August 15, 1947 after complete peace and normalcy was restored in the region. Pakistan has not vacated the aggression. On the other hand, it has ceded a portion of the Jammu & Kashmir territories in the Akshai Chin area to China and also merged illegally certain areas of Gilgit-Baltistan region with Pakistan.
In other words, the Security Council resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir have become redundant. And, still Pakistan has the temerity to approach the Security Council and ask it to hold a plebiscite in this part of Jammu & Kashmir. Courtesy: of course New Delhi.
Tough action against Pakistan had become all the more imperative after Islamabad described as "inadequate" the otherwise "actionable evidence" provided by India to Pakistan against the perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack, including Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Azhar Masood, and demanded more evidence. Instead, the ambivalent Indian political establishment and BJP spokespersons praised Pakistan for what it did in the aftermath of the Pathankot terror attack which resulted in the martyrdom of seven of our soldiers, including Lt. Colonel, and also left almost two dozen of our soldiers injured. They rubbed salt on the wounds of the Indian nation by saying that there was no reason why New Delhi should not believe in Pakistan with Pakistani think-tanks and biased and jubilant media houses advising the Indian media "not to play negative role and support the approach of Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj". It happened for the first time in 68 years that Pakistani think-tanks and the Indian administration, as also the BJP as a party, spoke with one voice and lambasted the critics in India of the BJP's foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan.
It's no wonder that the emboldened Pakistan has once again approached the UN Security Council and urged it to hold a plebiscite in Jammu & Kashmir to enable Kashmiri Muslims to exercise their so-called right to self-determination.
When will the Union Government act as any Government of a self-respecting nation acts? When will the so-called nationalist BJP abandon its appeasement policy and uphold the national cause? |
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