No one can deny that the statement of Omar Abdullah calling on the British Foreign secretary Mr. Miliband to mediate between India and Pakistan in order to ease tensions between our two countries was intended as a sincere effort to forward peace, and yet fundamentalists such as Mr Rudy will even pick apart such noble efforts and spare no effort to escalate the bellicose statements being exchanged between the two countries lately. It is this kind of belligerence that has prevented India and Pakistan from building a strong friendship for all these years - simply because mediators of peace like Omar are quickly silenced by fundamentalists such as Mr Rudy.
However, maybe Mr Rudy is exacting his revenge for the drubbing he received from Omar in interviews during Amarnath protests, but he should act like a man and move on. He should keep the interests of the Nation before his personal vendetta. India and Pakistan will both benefit if there is a lasting peace between our two brotherly countries. Asking for outside help in resolving our conflict is a mature and reasonable thing to do - simply because we have been unable to resolve our differences on our own for the past 60 years. If we keep holding on to our pride, and shun outside efforts to mediate between us, then we will only keep sulking in our self made quagmire, and be suffering for another 60 years of unnecessary animosity and enmity with our neighbouring country with which we share a millenia of civilization and culture.
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Dear Tanveer Sb:
I am eagerly awaiting your promised response on my previous comment, with facts and figures. When are you going to enlighten me.
Dear Tanveer Sb:
I am eagerly awaiting your promised response on my previous comment, with facts and figures. When are you going to enlighten me.
Tanveer
India has reservations of any third party mediating the Kashmir dispute. There are two reasons (1) India is on a strong position currently with J & K and doesn't want to lose leverage (2) Many third parties have their own geopolitical objectives and nefarious designs in the greater Kashmir region.
I think (2) is a just reason where as (1) is just opportunistic.
India got a bitter taste of (2) when the UN resolution in 1948 on Kashmir turned out to be quite different from what it expected from the UK & USA.
In 1948, USA & UK were very wary of Soviet influence in central Asia. Specifically, they wanted to arrest the movement of Soviet influence into Afghanistan and South Asia. If India has a common frontier with NWFP or Afghanistan, it would have used it tremendously to its advantage : it would have supported an independent Pashtunistan movement and created a massive headache for Pakistan. This would be very contrary to the geopolitical designs of USA & UK.
Even though the cold war has ended, USA & UK still have their own designs on Afghanistan and central asia (primarily due to the voluminous natural gas deposits in Turkmenistan area). So, it would be a strategic blunder for India to walk into their den by asking for their mediation on the Kashmir dispute.
If there is a completely disinterested party (such as Norway or Brazil) they can better serve as neutral moderators on this dispute with Pakistan.
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