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"The Taming of the Shrew"
by
Mumtaz Hamid Rao
With breathing ambience of high tension in South Asia,
India’s bigoted act of emitting arrogance for a
long-term peace in the blistering South Asian region,
the newest outbursts of the New Delhi warlords, is
nothing except an awful act of colossal scale,
especially when frenzied global efforts are under way
to de-escalate the Indo-Pakistan conflict. Besides
routinely indicting Pakistan for Tuesday’s molest on
Hindu yatrees in Pahalgam – a picturesque vicinity in
Indian Held Kashmir, the militant Indian Defence
Minister, George Fernandess has come out with a
grotesque mind-set that the ‘ Americans have no role
to play in Kashmir.’ Chatting with newsmen after
chucking into the market in New Delhi Friday, a fouled
piece –‘Mission to Pakistan” -- authored by an
ex-police man Maloy Krishna Dhar –Fernandess, setting
asides the universal disquiet vis-à-vis the perilous
course in South Asia – uttered an atrocious view about
the recent visits by leaders of the influential world
by saying “they are coming here because they like
India’. What a cynical posture of Frenandess? The
extent of perils to peace has been acknowledged even
by the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Tyronne Fernando –
who has made a firm call in the Indian Capital on
Friday that ‘ India and Pakistan must – at once --
return to the dialogue table to bring down the
sizzling temperature in the region’. ‘The escalating
relations between the two nuke-countries are imposing
an adverse impact on the smaller nations in South
Asia’, he observed by making a fervent call for peace
‘in the best interest of the mankind.’ It is not a
singular call from a dazzling Island with a petite
populace of 20-million souls, the world-at-large is
constantly coercing India to bow before the ground
realities by getting onto the path of a face-to-face
dialogue with Pakistan to avert a possible skirmish
which when erupts ‘would be worst than the awful
episode of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’. But
Vajpayee-cum-fanatic Advani-led Indian headship
continues to eschew the popular will of the living
beings by going for a choice which would be more
luckless for the billion-plus Indian population than
any where else.
Pakistan has justifiably been voicing strong concern
over the frequent chauvinistic Indian ventures. The
utterances – like the one made by Fernandess Friday --
are more ominous as such a pose will eventually
exacerbate the tension that grips the region. One
hopes that the comity of nations will come out – in a
big way – to indict New Delhi for pointlessly keeping
the pot boiling in a nuclear battlefield when forces
are facing each other in a stand-off position. As far
Pakistan, it has capabilities to match those of India.
Pakistan also has abundant means to defend its soil.
However, Islamabad will not be provoked into
abandoning the course of restraint and responsibility,
a hallmark of its approach that has always been
much-admired by the peace-loving world. The fact is
that with narcissistic and blind amassing of troops –
by India -- along the borders and LoC in Kashmir,
clouds of a soaring tension continue to overcast the
horizons of the South Asia region with a ray of hope
that the enormity of a catastrophe –emerging from the
constant Indian arrogance - may jolt the New Delhi
rulers to accept the global voice for solving all the
problems with Pakistan through a process of instant
dialogue. This, if happens can pave a solid way for
opening vistas for an ideal scenario for a lasting
peace in this part of the World. In spite of the
earnest initiatives by Pakistan to de-escalate the
existing tension, the Indians have, so far callously
opted to pop in utmost pressure on Pakistan to
generate a perilously volatile situation in the whole
region. The waft towards war is also being prompted by
the dynamics of war hysteria, unleashed in the first
instance by the lashing tongues of the Indian hard
liners.
On the hand, Pakistan continues to make – with
optimal zest -- its resolute efforts for ensuring that
the peace in the region does not get disturbed. The
President, General Pervez Musharraf in his
worldwide-watched address the nation on January 12 and
again on May 27 had made a most frank, straight and
prolific statement of policy by affirming that
Pakistan is strongly opposed to terrorism in all its
forms and manifestations. This was an explicit
commitment which he fulfilled by taking stern action
against the extremist groups, which were banned, their
offices sealed and all means of their resources
plugged. President Musharraf also emphatically
declared that the moral, diplomatic and political
support by Pakistan to the Kashmiris cause would
continue. He made an avid appeal to the global
community to step forward and help bring the state
terrorism, let loose by India in Kashmir to an
instantaneous end.
Of-course the nucleus of the President’s speech was
to help facilitate steps for defusing the tension,
heightened by the Indian armed forces build-up However
the Indian stance, so far remains glum. The BJP set-up
--riddled with scandals and obsessed with clinging to
power -- does not seem to be ready to bend before the
bona fide facts. It fully knows that Kashmir is the
core issue between India and Pakistan which is
required to be solved in line with the United Nations
resolutions, reflecting the ultimate will of
Kashmiris. New Delhi is, in sync aware of the fact
that even with a despotic era, based on horrors,
atrocities, brutalities, third rate intimidations and
above all flagrant violations of human rights, it has
shamefully failed to win over the souls of the valiant
Kashmiri people, engaged in an indigenous resist too
make the invaders quit the dazzling Himalayan state in
a jiffy.. Hence the only feasible option left for
India is that it should give up its decades-old
disinclination by fitting acquiescent to the universal
call for the solution of problems through meaningful
talks. At the same time, it is the duty of the
international community, especially the United States
to avow its pressure on India for ensuring a stable
peace in South Asia, which can be made possible only
through an early solution of the Kashmir dispute. It
is, therefore perfect time for Mr. Vajpayee and his
colleagues to confess the ground reality that the
affluent future of South Asia rests solely in amity,
as has been reminded to them – time and again - by
President Pervez Musharraf through his well-acclaimed
gestures and truthful desire for talks in the best
interest of peace and tranquility in this part of the
world. One can simply hope that sanity may enclose the
Indian leaders to acknowledge the lofty impact of the
cordial propositions – time and again – made by
Pakistan. Such a scenario, if takes place can usher
in an era of everlasting prosperity in South Asia,
which has remained deprived so far only because of
egotism and flimsy attitude of India towards the
solid facts. Pakistan, on its part has all-the-time
advocated it’s adore for peace in the best interest of
the mankind. It does not want war – which otherwise
means ruin– yet, let no one dare infer this outlook as
an icon of weakness. If war is imposed, each and every
Pakistani – irrespective of age, cast or credo – will
step in jointly to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the
heroic, valiant, courageous, gallant, chivalrous,
daring and undaunted Armed Forces of Pakistan to
frustrate the evil designs of the enemy by defending
each and every inch of the sacred soil of Pakistan.
Hence George Fernandes and his masters
Vajpayee-and-Advani must recognize the global anxiety
– manifested by recurrent voyage by the stalwarts of
the influential world -- lest a course for ‘taming of
the shrew’ erupts due to the unending Indian
ferociousness.
The author is a noted journalist, political analyst and ex-Director News Pakistan TV.
Source:
by courtesy & © 2002 Mumtaz Hamid Rao
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