Modiayapa complicates Kashmir Problem and RSS fuel sets Kashmir on fire afresh!
Mind you ,no deal between two heads of government is to do anything to resolve Kashmir problem unless we take the initiative to restore normalcy in Kashmir.
Ram Madhav's statement about the PDP-BJP Alliance being based on the ideology of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, had exposed PDP's complete sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of power.
Modi meets Sharif, Kashmir issue may take a backseat in talks as Pakistan looks to increase trade with India
Palash Biswas
Ufa (Russia): More than a year after they met in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are meeting in Ufa on Friday. According to sources, the Kashmir issue will take a backseat as Pakistan wants to increase trade ties with India. The much anticipated meet is talking place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
The two leaders shook hands and posed for photographers before settling down for delegation-level talks. Indian delegation included National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar while Sartaj Aziz, Sharif's advisor on foreign affairs and national security, was in the Pakistani delegation.
Sources say that at least 5 agreements are expected to be signed by the two leaders and three-year multiple entry visas are likely to be given to Pakistan businessmen.
Sources say that at least 5 agreements are expected to be signed by the two leaders. Three-year multiple entry visas are likely to be given to Pakistan businessmen. Multiple entry visas are also likely to be given to bus travellers on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route and Delhi-Lahore route. Sources also add that slow pace of 26/11 trial and trade with Pakistan will top the Indian agenda for the talks. It is also being said that Pakistan realises that harping on Kashmir with Modi government is a futile attempt.
The meeting holds importance as Pakistan will be hosting the SAARC summit in 2016 and Modi will have to visit the country then. Thus both countries are hoping to bring back the dialogue process.
Setting the tone for the meeting, Modi and Sharif had on Thursday exchanged pleasantries and chatted briefly when they came face-to-face at a dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin for leaders of five BRICS countries and 10 SCO nations.
"It is confirmed. PM @narendramodi and PM Nawaz Sharif will have a bilateral meeting in Ufa tomorrow at 9.15 am (9.45 am IST) on sidelines of SCO Summit," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup had tweeted.
Officials said the two leaders would be reviewing the relationship and all issues could be on the table. "Terrorism for India is a major concern," an official said, indicating that the issue could be taken up by Modi at tomorrow's meeting.
In Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said bilateral issues of importance will be discussed in the Modi-Sharif meeting. "India has proposed a meeting and Pakistan has positively responded to it," the spokesman said.
Indian officials, while insisting that expectations should not be raised for the meeting, likened India- Pakistan relations to a cricket match. "You never know how the match will progress till it ends," a senior official said.
The official was commenting while contending that there have been positive gestures in India-Pakistan relations in the recent months, like Modi calling up Sharif to greet him on Ramzan which was followed by release of fishermen by both the countries.
Modi and Sharif met at Modi's swearing-in ceremony in May 2014. Thereafter the two leaders came together in Kathmandu in November 2014 for the SAARC Summit but did not have a bilateral meeting because of acrimony between the two countries at that time.
Provided,Janab Nawaj Sharif compromises with RSS as Mufti did,even then without making them Indian Citizens,the Kashmir people would not be the part of India,we must realize.
Mind you ,no deal between two heads of government is to do anything to resolve Kashmir problem unless we take the initiative to restore normalcy in Kashmir.
The status:Modiayapa complicates Kashmir Problem and RSS fuel sets Kashmir on fire afresh!
Ram Madhav's statement about the PDP-BJP Alliance being based on the ideology of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, had exposed PDP's complete sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of power.
Makbool Veeray,Chief Editor at Daily Kashmiriyat & Sach News writes:
Ram Madhav has exposed PDP's sell-out to BJP – NC : Sachnews Jammu Kashmir Srinagar, July 07: National Conference on Tuesday said BJP General Secretary, Ram Madhav's statement about the PDP-BJP Alliance being based on the ideology of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, had exposed PDP's complete sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of power. NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said the BJP General Secretary's remarks have finally and formally revealed that the PDP-BJP Alliance is based on the agenda and ideology of Mukherjee and the 'Agenda of the Alliance'.
National Conference on Tuesday said BJP General Secretary, Ram Madhav's statement about the PDP-BJP Alliance being based on the ideology of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, has exposed PDP's complete sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of power.
NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said the BJP General Secretary's remarks have finally and formally revealed that the PDP-BJP Alliance is based on the agenda and ideology of Mukherjee and the 'Agenda of the Alliance', as stated by PDP's own MPs is a mere piece of paper.
Kashmir Image reports:"When the alliance was being formed, we were told by Mufti Sahab that his embrace of the BJP and RSS was based on the interests of the people of the State and that there were alleged safeguards for the interests of J&K in a document called the 'Agenda of the Alliance'.
Today the BJP General Secretary who was in-charge of forging the PDP-BJP marriage of opportunism has categorically exposed Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the PDP by saying this alliance is based on Mukherjee's ideology of abrogating Article 370 and repealing the State Subject Laws had revealed the actual intention of this coalition", Sagar said in a statement issued from NC Headquarters in Srinagar.
The NC General Secretary said all promises and pledges that were officially announced by PDP in its 'Agenda of the Alliance' with the BJP had been exposed as plain lies.
"The brazen silence of Mufti Sahab in the face of such revelations by his alliance partner makes it evident that PDP has tacitly agreed to compromise on the sensitive issues of Article 370 and State Subject Laws. It was Mukherjee's ideology and dream to bring about the abrogation of Article 370 and repeal the State Subject Law – doing away with J&K's special status, its constitution and its State flag. Now it appears Mukherjee's dream is being pursued through Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his party", Sagar further said.
Meanwhile,
She was responding to a question on Modi "strongly" and "clearly" conveying India's concerns yesterday to President Xi Jinping in Ufa, Russia, over China blocking its proposal for action by the UN against Pakistan on Lakhvi's release.
India had also rejected the "weak evidence" theory propounded by Beijing in this regard.
Terming Modi-Xi talks as "constructive and inclusive", she said China has maintained good communication with India and other parties on the Lakhvi issue.
About India's concerns over terrorism, she said: "I can tell you that both India and China are victims of terrorism. China opposes all forms of terrorism and support the UN playing the leading role in coordinating international cooperation on anti-terrorism. China has actively taken part in global cooperation."
India had sought action against Pakistan for release of LeT commander Lakhvi in the 26/11 trial in violation of a UN resolution at a meeting of the UN Sanctions Committee last month but the Chinese representatives blocked the move on grounds that New Delhi did not provide sufficient information.
Today's replies by Hua were little more elaborate than the Chinese Foreign Ministry's earlier replies on the issue.
On July 2, answering questions on the technical hold put by China on the Lakhvi issue in UN, Deputy Director General of the Asian Affairs Department of Chinese Foreign Ministry Huang Xilian said the issue should be discussed in the India-China joint mechanism on terrorism between the two countries.
"We have mechanism of counter-terrorism consultation between the two ministries" in which it can be discussed, he had said.
However, in his briefing after Modi-Xi talks last night, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said, "there is no particular mechanism. The MEA can discuss with the Embassy (Chinese). There are a range of mechanisms."
The Prime Minister conveyed to Xi how the people of India viewed the Chinese action.
China had earlier also put a technical hold on India's demand for UN Security Council to take action against Hizbul Mujahudeen Chief Syed Salahuddin and LeT leader HafeezSayed citing rules the UNSC resolution 1267.
In a letter to the current Chair of the UN Sanctions Committee Jim McLay, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Asoke Mukherjee had said Lakhvi's release by a Pakistani court was in violation of the 1267 UN resolution dealing with designated entities and individuals.
So What if Suresh Prabhu flags-off four new train services in Jammu and Kashmir!
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh were also present on the occasion along with several senior ministers of the BJP-PDP coalition government.
Union Railways Minister Suresh Prabhuhas flagged off four new diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) train services from Nowgan railway station in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh were also present on the occasion along with several senior ministers of the BJP-PDP coalition government.
Prabhu said that railways is committed to improving connectivity in the state, which is vital to its well being.
"We have flagged off four new trains…We are planning to add more coaches to these trains so that more people can travel. We are in constant touch with the state government; we have decided to hold a meeting with state government once every 15 days so that problems related to improving rail network in Jammu and Kashmir can be solved," he said.
"Peace in the region is the most important thing, new projects can function effectively only if the atmosphere is peaceful. The job opportunity for youth of the state will improve once connectivity improves," he added. The new trains will facilitate rail travel along Banihal-Qazigund-Baramulla rail track which passes through the Pir Panjal mountain range.
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Fresh violence on the Line of Control, whatever may be the immediate provocation and whosoever may have started it, is a grim reminder of the widening gap between India and Pakistan on the political front and the inability of the two countries to initiate the much needed dialogue process. A common perception, atleast in New Delhi, is that dialogue with Pakistan can begin only after cessation of all violence on the borders, control over terrorism and infiltration bids. This premise is not based on logic. The vulnerability of the borders including the Line of Control and invariable periods of violence, infact, underline the need for hastening a peace process that could spell in basic confidence building measures like cessation of violence and bringing mechanisms in place to sort out petty skirmishes at the very initial stages rather than allowing them to blow out of proportion due to lack of any communication. The unreasonable show of allegations and counter allegations do not only enable such hostilities to appropriate the peace constituency but they eventually also take us further away from peace process in the South Asian region and the resolution of the Kashmir dispute. This is fraught with dangers especially when Kashmir is quoted to be a nuclear flashpoint between India and Pakistan. Doubtlessly, the imperative is to begin a process of engagement and work towards cessation of violence rather than adding fuel to the fire.
For normality to come on the borders, some serious steps need to be taken for which seriousness is desirable not only from the Indian side but also the Pakistani side, since it takes two to clap. Both sides first of all need to shun the tradition of using the fragility of the borders for petty political ends. Kashmir issue and border firing has always been used by power centres in Pakistan to assert themselves and wriggle out of the domestic political mess in the country. In India, these has often been used for electoral gains, irrespective of which party uses it. There should be unanimity both within the two respective countries and an understanding with each other to resume existing mechanisms of bilateral negotiations at all levels and strengthening them for restoring peace and winning the confidence of the people. A beginning should be made by putting to regular use the dedicated hotlines reserved for the purpose of sorting out border skirmishes and hostility. The Director General of Military Operations (DGMOs) must meet and sort out the recent escalation of hostilities so that the ugly spectacle of blame-game with its vicious cycle of who pressed the trigger first can come to a complete halt. The aim, however, should not simply be cessation of hostilities but also accelerating the process of moving forward with other CBMs including creation of demilitarized zones on the LoC, which can be achievable through greater co-operation of militaries on both sides. Such measures need better diplomatic ties and negotiations at the higher level. The larger goal should be to resume dialogue at all levels, strengthen bilateral ties through introduction of major confidence building measures and strengthening of existing ones majorly with the prime focus on people of people movement and interactions. This would ultimately help the resolution of negotiations at all levels - terrorism, trade and all minor and major disputes including Kashmir. It goes without saying that the latter would also require a simultaneous process of opening negotiations with the people of the state on both sides of the Line of Control.
India's latest policy of pro-active engagement with host of countries in South Asia, particularly Saarc region by isolating Pakistan will not be helpful in bringing peace in the Saarc region or in strengthening India's own bilateral relations with other neighbours as Pakistan continues to be a strong contender and stakeholder in the region. It cannot be either shunned or isolated. It must not be excluded if one is looking for longer lasting peace, stability, democracy and progress. Terms of engagement in foreign relations must find an important place for Pakistan in India's itinerary and vice versa.
News Updated at : Thursday, July 9, 2015
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