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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 26: Delhi seems to give more weightage to keeping the channels of dialogue with Islamabad open than resuming talks with the Kashmiri separatists especially those belonging to the All Party Hurriyat Conference (AHPC).This is evident from two factors.One,Delhi agreed to resume talks,if not the composite dialogue,with Islamabad even after Pakistan had not conceded all the demands from India regarding action to be taken against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage because it wanted to promote friendly and cordial relations with Islamabad..
The composite dialogue had been suspended soon after the terrorists,travelling from Pakistan,carried out a major strike in Mumbai on November 26,2008.In the attack between 166 and 179 people were killed and a large number injured.As Delhi announced its decision that the composite dialogue had been suspended Islamabad felt jittery.When Islamabad made repeated pleadings and the US Government also mounted pressure on Delhi for resuming talks with Islamabad it imposed a few conditions which included immediate action against the perperators of the Mumbai strike,steps for dismantling terror infrastructure and measures that could prevent agencies and terror groups from using the soil of Pakistan for exporting terror to India.
Except for detaining seven persons suspected to be involved in the Mumbai strike Islamabad took no other step which could have motivated and prompted Delhi to resume the dialogue.Delhi had felt peeved and enraged when its dosiers against those involved in the Mumbai strike were not taken seriously by Islamabad.And one had believed that Delhi may be totally unwilling to resume dialogue.But India's decision to invite Pakistan Foreign secretary,Salman Bashir,for talks with his counterpart in Delhi took many by surprise.And Bashir visited Delhi and had a discussion with Indian Foreign secretary,Nirupama Rao on February 25.
It was in April that the Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,and the Pakistani Premier,Yousuf Raza Gilani met,after a gap of nine months,in Thimpu on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Bhutan.There the two had decided to further open the channels of dialogue. The two had decided that a proper beginning could be made through foreign ministry level talks.And if Nirupama Rao travelled to Islamabad on Thursday to have a meeting with Pakistan Foreign secretary,Salman Bashir, it was the outcome of the Manmohan-Gilani talks.
And after the Union Home Minister,P.C.Chidambaram's visit to Islamabad on Friday-Saturday the Indian Foreign Minister,S.M.Krishna is to participate in a dialogue with his counterpart,Shah Mehmood Qureshi,and the agenda for the talks has already been decided during Rao-Bashir meeting in Islamabad on Thursday.Though the focus of Krishna-Qureshi meeting will be on peace,security and terror Islamabad may insist on a preliminary discussion on Kashmir and other allied issues.
It is not only the establishment in Delhi that is keen on keeping the channels of dialogue open but Islamabad too is very eager to set the stage for a sustained and meaningful dialogue.Days before Chidambarams' visit to Islamabad Pakistan ordered release of 17 Indian prisoners which was responded by Delhi releasing four Pakistani prisoners.The spirit of eagerness that Delhi has evinced in resuming talks with Islamabad is totally missing when it comes to the resumption of dialogue with the Kashmiri separatists.Though since 2007 Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,has been expressing his willingness to hold talks with all those who are on the other side of the fence provided they shun violence he or the Government does not seem to be keen to reopen the channels of dialogue with the separatists which stand choked since 2005.
Delhi does not seem to agree with the ideas of the Kashmiri separatists who say in the open that the Kashmir issue could be settled only through triangular talks.Of late Delhi has come to realise that the separatists have only the nuisance value after they have lost the representative character following factional feuds among various camps.Besides this Delhi believes that for peace,security and political stability friendly relations with Pakistan could be more important than involving separatists in talks.Delhi also knows that since the valley has witnessed a mushroom growth of separatist outfits it was not possible to clinch the issue with one or two groups.hence the emphasis is on ironing out differences with Islamabad and this what the US Government also wants.
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