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| Time to tell Pakistan enough is enough | | Scourge of terror | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 6: The latest stand taken by the Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the January 1 Pathankot Airbase terror attack that resulted in the martyrdom of our seven soldiers and by the Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on the same attack on our vital security installation has rattled Pakistan.
On March 1, Parrikar told Rajya Sabha that the Pathankot terror attack was the handiwork both of non-state actors and state actors. Parrikar said: "All details will come out in NIA investigation. In this, non-state actors from Pakistan are certainly involved, that is sure... And any non-state (actor), they can't function smoothly without state support". It was perhaps for the first time that any Indian Defence Minister directly charged both the non-state actors and the Pakistani Army and ISI with masterminding the terror attack in India.
And, a day later, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said that the priority of India was not bilateral discussions between India and Pakistan, but action by Pakistan against terrorists responsible for the Pathankot attack and similar other attacks in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which consumed almost 170 innocent lives.
"In the aftermath of a terror attack, if you ask me what do you give priority to, a terrorist attack or a diplomatic dialogue, I think the answer should be obvious," he said while replying to a question during an interactive session at the Raisina Dialogue - a conclave on geoeconomics and geopolitics - on whether FS-level talks were linked to action by Islamabad against perpetrators of the Pathankot attack.
None in the country had expected that the Indian Defence Ministry and Foreign Ministry would take such a line, but they did exactly the opposite and surprised the critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy vis-à-vis Pakistan. Pakistan, too, had perhaps not expected that India would harden its stand on dialogue process with Islamabad. After all, PM Modi had dumbfounded not only the country but the Indian Foreign Minister, Home Minister, Defence Minister, in fact, everyone in the South and North Blocks by suddenly visiting Lahore (Pakistan), where he met with his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif.
That the stand Manohar Parrikar and S Jaishankar took on the Pathankot terror attack has rattled and disturbed Pakistan could be seen from what its uncouth Indian High Commissioner Abdul Basit said on Saturday. He said dialogue was not a favour by one country to another but a necessity to normalise relations. He made this atrocious statement obviously in the backdrop of delay in Foreign Secretary-level talks with India which has made it clear that action on Pathankot attack takes the priority.
Basit, in fact, pitched for "uninterruptible and uninterrupted" dialogue and said "dialogue was not a favour by one country to another but a necessity to normalise relations". "Jammu and Kashmir was the root cause of all our bilateral problems, as mutually agreed, we must work together to settle this issue," he also said. He was addressing the Rajasthan Patrika Idea Fest 2016 at Jaipur.
New Delhi must call the Pakistani bluff and tell Islamabad that it would enter into dialogue with it only after it handed over to India all the perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai and January 1 Pathankot terror attacks and that the talks, when held, will focus only on the political future of the PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan and nothing else. New Delhi must imitate United States, China, Russia, France, Israel and similar other self-respecting nations and tell Pakistan that enough is enough and that New Delhi will not tolerate any interference in the internal affairs of India.
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