PERFECT PAKISTAN POLICY – NO NEGOTIATIONS


Mukesh Devrari

BJP has no idea how to deal with Pakistan. BJP leaders must understand that they cannot threaten Pakistan. Aggressive statements emanating from Indian leaders only fuel the hatred against India in Pakistan, which strengthens the hands of radical elements in Pakistani Military and society. The best foreign policy against Pakistan is to totally ignore them until the situation in Kashmir is normalized to some extent. Indians cannot run away from the fact that Kashmir is a Muslim majority region. People of Kashmir have sympathy with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Global bonhomie in all followers of Islam is not unknown to modern societies.

For Pakistan Government talks with India means discussion on Kashmir. It is also strange that even almost seventy years after the independence Pakistan is not ready to dilute their claim on entire Kashmir as it is a Muslim majority region. They still describe it as an unfinished agenda of Partition. Over the last three decades, Pakistan has succeeded in keeping the militancy alive in Kashmir with the support of certain sections of the Kashmiri population. It has also succeeded in representing India as a Hindu nation where Muslims cannot live peacefully and get justice.   

Pakistan wants Kashmir to become an international dispute and grab the attention of Muslims around the world. Their foreign policy experts try to draw a parallel between Palestine and Kashmir.  However, nobody has bought their argument so far. Whenever India initiates bilateral discussion, Pakistan gets an opportunity to highlight the Kashmir conflict at the international level. Global media also covers the Kashmir element in the bilateral discussion. India has only to lose in such a scenario.
  
Just imagine a situation when no talks between India and Pakistan will take place for the next decades. Can Pakistan do anything to highlight the Kashmir globally? Probably not. At best Pakistan can promote terrorism in India and support terrorist activities in Kashmir to highlight it. Then, India should retaliate. Minor incidents India can afford to ignore.  

In short, India must not resume bilateral discussion openly, but we must keep the channels of communication open. In the talks beyond diplomatic channels, we must try to convince the world that the best solution of Kashmir problem is the conversion of Line of Control into an irrelevant border where all can move with minimum state interference. Minor exchanges of territory can be done. Few villages here, few there, but the rearrangement of boundaries of India and Pakistan is impossible.

In the long run, it is also possible that national boundaries may become irrelevant and people will be able to freely move from one country to another. Indians and Pakistanis might be able to visit any part of each other's country without any problem. Then, we may laugh at the policies pursued by our leaders in both the nations to outmanoeuvre and outsmart each other. Pakistan must understand this if more than 170 million Muslims can live in India peacefully, 8 million Kashmiri Muslims can also do the same.

India must be fair but firm. As a nation, it is the responsibility of India not to give an opportunity to Pakistan to internationalize Kashmir issue. India must also ensure that separatist Kashmiri leaders are not given the opportunity to spread venom and hatred against India by manipulating petty incidents and events. India has no reason to hate Pakistan. If Pakistan stops supporting state-sponsored terrorist activities against us, then relations between both countries may improve overnight.  

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