The RSS organ also said that to the contrary, videos showing Pakistan brutality and protests against Islamabad in the Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK) are going viral and a leader from J&K Moulana Syed Athar Hussain Dehlavi after touring the areas has stated that people residing there want to be a part of India as they are impressed with governance here and are distressed with growing extremism in Pakistan. When we pointed out, that as far as AJK was concerned, it had a separate President, Prime Minister, Supreme Court, and High Court, the Indians told us, that any constitutional arrangements in this connection notwithstanding, they wanted both sides of the LoC to have similar and equal powers.
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Even so, a few senior officers argued that Mr Modi’s reputation as a hardline nationalist might enable him to take risks in delivering a few kind of deal to end India and Pakistan’s differences.
Decades of artillery exchanges, skirmishes, incursions, full-blown wars and a sustained insurgency have failed to alter the territorial share: Pakistan has around one-third of Kashmiri territory and India two-thirds.
On Friday, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi had handed over dossiers to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon that included allegations of “Indian interference and support of terrorism” and “intelligence agency links with the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan”.
Whether its Pakistan’s insistence on resolving Kashmir as a core issue or India seeking redress on terror claims, the future does not lie in a vacuum. However, India’s aggressive posture is sure to take Pakistan by surprise.
The two men agreed that their national security advisers should meet to discuss, among other things, ways to expedite the Mumbai trial. Global community is largely appreciative of this security turnaround. Subsequently, Narendra Modi responded positively by inviting his counterpart to his oath taking ceremony in Delhi. However, many diplomats have hailed the new Indian policy.
“The Modi Government has handled India’s relationship with Pakistan very badly”.
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He said that India was subjugating people of Kashmir who wanted the right of self determination. One of India’s leading newspapers warned the Prime Minister in an editorial, pointing out that many in the State see it (Article 370) as their only protection against existential threat. The long-term interests of Pakistan and India will be best served by resuming unconditional talks on all contentious issues, including terrorism (India’s priority) and Kashmir (Pakistan’s priority).
