Thursday, May 13, 2010

Avoiding A War between India and Pakistan

Avoiding a war

Indian media have printed an article by Sherry Rehman, a member of the National Security Committee of Parliament of Pakistan and a former information minister prescribing some measures for settling Kashmir dispute and improving Indo-Pak relations.

But these have been rendered meaningless and ineffective in view of some recent developments.

India is simply not interested in a Muslim-majority Kashmir. This is the only explanation for India not trying to militarily retrieve the part of Kashmir under Pakistan's control. Pakistan, on the other hand, has tried to capture the Indian side of Kashmir in 1947-48, 1965, 1971, during Kargil war and through the ongoing proxy war.

India has taken out Hindus (Kashmiri Pundits) from Kashmir Valley citing terrorism as a reason and left Muslims in the valley at the mercy of its military. It has so far avoided any meaningful dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir. At the same time New Delhi has warded off all US pressures to act as mediator.

The change in the situation is the recent London conference on Afghanistan. This has emboldened Taleban and other jihadis to bleed India by thousand cuts through terrorist attacks.

Any assurance to India from the civilian leadership in Pakistan does not carry much credibility in India due to the all-powerful military (and ISI) of Pakistan.

Therefore Indians are mentally preparing themselves for a most likely war between India and Pakistan. But India and Pakistan are nuclear powers and a war will prove catastrophic to both. Therefore, the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit to be hosted by US President Barack Obama in Washington on April 12 and 13 has not come a day soon. Obama, who has received such an unprecedented love from the rest of the world, should gird himself up in order to install an "anti-nuclear weapons global regime" (not as ineffective as IAEA or NPT regime etc.) which will ensure that the nuclear weapons of the entire world (with those from India and Pakistan on first priority) shall be brought under the control of this "anti-nuclear weapons global regime." This regime will not allow any county to produce nuclear arms. It will also ensure that the existing ones are eliminated in a time-bound program.

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