Enough is not enough: India and Pakistan use Jammu Kashmir as bargain chip!

DR. ABDUL RUFF

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What will they do when two puppets chance to face each or cross over? 

Maybe, they would make funny gestures and movements! America’s tow major nuclearized puppets met in new Delhi at 7, race Course Road on 08 th April obviously as per their secret undertaking. At the outset, move offers the public an impression that Pakistani Zardari came all the way to New Delhi by a special Pak air-force  plane unofficially only to invite Zardji Manmohan to visit Pakistan officially. India must have insisted  that Pakistani president should come to Indian to extend an invitation to Indian terror  PM.  

And on the pretext of visiting Ajmer Durgah (Mosque) , Pakistan leaders have willingly played  Indian fiddle-  and earned a free lunch as well. And Indian PM "accepted" the invitation deal, officially.The shrine in western India of a revered Sufi Muslim saint, visited by all faiths and seen as "secular" and as a symbol of harmony between South Asia's often competing religions.   The Moscue authorities are unhappy that Rajasthan government  collects the  offerings deposited in the boxes kept inside the  Durgah. 

Religion and mosques are mere tolls to promote private politico-economic interests of leaders of both Pakistan and India. 

When the Indian regime released the  breaking news  to media on Zardari's  "sudden" trip, the speculations were  generated in the media  by state terror strategists to use the occasion to push a weakened Pakistan to "officially":" accept the terror responsibility in Mumbai and help Indo-US close the  issue once for all.

Manmohan refused to  come out to receive the chief guest from Islamabad, displaying petrified superiority mindset of Hindutva nation. This is the ugly side of Indian core diplomacy like the one of USA towards its puppets. India wants Pakistanis to feel small in front of a extra"powerful" India, looking forward to outwit USA and Russia- not jsut China. .  . 

In fact, from the vedo footage of the TV media, one gets the impression that Pakistan delegation was rushing into the Manmohan  residence as if  hungry villagers throng the house of zamindar (  landlord)  for foot  packages for themselves and son and daughter. 

Enough is enough!. 

The continued freedom of Islamist Hafiz Saeed, suspected of masterminding an attack by Pakistan-based gunmen on India's financial capital, Mumbai, in 2008 that killed 166 people, including 50 Muslims, caused some friction in the days before the meeting. India says it is furious Pakistan has not detained Saeed, despite handing over a dossier of evidence against him. Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that anyone with concrete proof to prosecute Saeed should present it to the courts.

Talks only resumed a year ago. In November,  Gilani  and Singh met in the Maldives and promised to open a new chapter in their troubled history. Hopes are focused on resolving the conflict at the Siachen glacier and a dispute over an oil-rich river estuary called Sir Creek.

Maybe a mere coincidence  from nature’s  worry  on the crude fat of Kashmiris, besieged by both India and Pakistan by way of  treacherous occupation, a  snowslide hit in the Siachen Glacier region of Pakistan in the Karakoram range of Himalayas on the eve of a scheduled meeting between two US puppets in New Delhi-  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian terror PM Manmohan Singh . It was the first visit to India by a Pakistani head of state since 2005.

Born in a village in what is now Pakistan, Singh has pushed for peace during his two terms in office by killing Kashmiri Muslims and pressing for MFN status form Pakistan as a price for good  relations, , but his efforts were knocked off track by the 2008 ouster of former President Pervez Musharraf, with whom he had built trust.

Up to 135 people, mostly Pakistani soldiers are feared dead after a massive avalanche engulfed a high-altitude military complex in mountainous Kashmir near the Indian border early 07 April. Pakistan's 124 army soldiers and 11 civilians were buried under the wall of snow more than 20 meters thick in the Siachen Glacier region, known as the world's highest battlefield where Pakistan and India have military outposts. Rescue workers try to find the victims of a deadly avalanche in Pakistan, April 7, 2012.There was no sign of life more than 12 hours later. 150 people were in the military base at a time of the avalanche.  The base is located in a high risk area where the inhospitable climate and avalanche-prone terrain have claimed more lives than gunfire. The military launched a huge all-day search on the remote 6,000-meter peak involving helicopters, search dogs, troops, doctors and paramedics, but the rescue operation was called off as darkness set in and the weather worsened. 

India and Pakistan fought two wars over Siachen and hundreds have died there, mostly from the inhospitable conditions.

India has yet to comment on the disaster, let alone expressing sympathy or solidarity with Pakistan nation. When Sept-11 hoax taken place in USA, India was quick to show sympathy with Bush Jr. .

Pakistan and India each have thousands of troops stationed in Kashmir, including the Siachen Glacier region which both nations claim in full. Territorial disputes over control of the rugged, mountainous region have sparked two wars between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Since 1984, there had been skirmishes along the border until both sides agreed to a cease-fire in 2003. 

Musharraf, the last Pakistani head of state to visit India in 2005, has said both issues were as good as fixed while he was in office.

Relations have warmed since Pakistan promised its neighbor most favored nation trade status last year, although a $10 million bounty offered by Washington for a Pakistani Islamist blamed for the 2008 attacks on Mumbai has stirred old grievances. Without giving details, the two leaders said they discussed a wide range of issues during a "fruitful" meeting before sharing lunch. Singh said he hoped to make his first visit to Pakistan at a convenient date. On his first visit to India as part of the 40-member delegation, Zardari's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, stood behind the leaders at the briefing, possibly a sign of his growing role in politics. "Relations between India and Pakistan should become normal. 

with Zardari and Singh both suffering major domestic problems, prospects are low for fixing the complex stand-off over disputed Kashmir, the trigger of two of three wars between the two countries since independence from Britain in 1947.

Lasting Pakistan-India peace would go a long way to smoothing a perilous transition in Afghanistan as most NATO combat forces prepare to leave by the end of 2014.

India and Pakistan fought their most recent war in 1999, shortly after both sides declared they possessed nuclear weapons. Hundreds died on the disputed border in Kashmir before Pakistani troops and militants were forced to withdraw.

Observation

Both Zardari and sardarji are facing existential problems at home, though unlike Manmohan who is a hired PM by Indian politicians, Zardari is an elected leader of the major PPP party.  

Zardari is eager to make his dear son Bilawal Bhutto the next president of Pakistan. Manmohan is waiting for his replacement. 

Unless credible solution is achieved in Kashmir by granting full Independence to them by both India and Pakistan, all these lunch diplomacy would be in lurch and futile exercise, l just like joint cricket exercises  by former British colonies. After all, India and Pakistan are the former colonies of colonialist UK and are being controlled by them on the Kashmir issue.