From Christmas Day in Lahore a year ago – when Modi dropped in to wish Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his birthday and attend his granddaughter’s wedding – to Independence Day past week, when the PM announced from no other venue than the Red Fort that the continuing unrest in Balochistan as well as Gilgit-Baltistan was now of Indian interest. Just $5 a month.
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While visiting New Delhi on Friday, Karzai insinuated that India had every right to respond to Pakistan’s provocations. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is more about power and control over the region than anything else. “They glorify terrorists”, Modi accused. Lately, the Pakistani state has given free hand to the Jamat to cultivate anti-India sentiment to turn the Baloch youth away from waging a secular war for their rights, to a religious war against Hindus (read India). Modi had reached out to his counterpart in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, in the hope that the country’s civilian leadership might pick up the courage to take charge of Indo-Pak relations.
This is the second time in a week that Pakistan has reiterated its demand to talk on Kashmir.
Highlighting the atrocities carried out by Pakistan in Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), the UK-based Kashmiris yesterday staged a protest against the establishment in Islamabad demanding peace and freedom in Kashmir. Young Kashmiri boys began snatching weapons from Indian forces and training themselves deep inside Kashmir’s forests.
She said this in her interview to media sources, also urging India to initiate the negotiation process on this long-standing issue in accordance with the United Nations resolution.
Pakistan regularly raised the Kashmir dispute in worldwide forums, including in the U.N. Meanwhile, India began calling the region an integral part of the nation, insisting that Kashmir’s lawmakers had ratified the accession to New Delhi. Its latest missive takes back the bilateral conversation on Kashmir by nearly two decades. Modi, on his part, made it clear that the handling of mob violence in the Valley was India’s domestic concern and assured the people of Jammu and Kashmir that the state’s coalition government will work on the principles of democracy, humanism and inclusiveness that are the hallmarks of “Kashmiriyat”.
Lauding India as a good partner to Afghanistan, Karzai said “see a great role for India in Afghanistan for infrastructure and development, India already has done a lot”. This perceived deliberate isolation of Pakistan is also bolstering the BJP’s popularity back home.
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He alleged that India was involved in subversive activities in Balochistan and Karachi. This is due to the very important geographical location of Balochistan. With lethal nuclear weaponry and treacherous political hostilities in the vicinity of Kashmir hot-spot, Kashmir conflict is bound to become a flash-point that will consume the whole region.
