Lost cause

Two South Asian countries, same culture , religions, ethnicity and language with a distinct demarcation of international border which separates India & Pakistan (apart from PoK & Aksai Chin). Yet there is a wide range of gap in thoughts, ideas , mutual understanding and peace making process. The recent dialogues, between India & Pakistan , held in the sidelines of UFA(Russia) Convention , has no new result. Rather it has turned out to be one of the worst fiasco by deliberate blaming of each other’s actions. Prior to this convention when India & Pakistan met in the sidelines of SCO (Shangai Co-operation Organisation) , same was the intended result.  

The first and foremost thing was as always have been  prevention of terrorism  by subduing any strand of the situation. This is the most hotly discussed topic which has been failing since ever. The menace of  cross border terrorism not just destabilizes both country’s efficacy but thwarts them in peace making decisions. Facilitation of religious tourism, expediting the trial of Zaikur Rehman Lakhvi  (the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai blasts) and pursuing a cease-fire agreement which could tone down the firing across border and stymie the innocent villagers from getting killed. 

Ever since 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Mr Narendra Modi’s decisive victory , his party has asserted that there would be alacrity commensurately  if any kind of provocations are made across the border. Nonetheless the rhetoric has been in discourse rather than in actions apart from the Naga raid in Myanmar. The national level engagements where Foreign secretaries or National Security Advisers meet , does represent a vague idea of exchange of talks which itself shuts down with the end of dialogues. After the Ufa Convention, Mr Sartaz Aziz, National Security Advisor of Pakistan has entailed to meet the Hurriyat separatist leaders before meeting Mr. Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor of India which had hurt the Indian leaders sentiment because the the Hurriyat leaders’ agitation represents Kashmir. This ‘K word’ issue was never meant to be discussed by the Indian counter part with Mr Aziz. Yet, Mr Aziz thought it was imperative to meet the Hurriyat separatists for disputed cause. Every political and national leader in India & Pakistan was acutely aware of the cynosure of  Kashmir’s dilemma which was inevitable to wish away. Nevertheless there wasn’t any specific agenda discussion on this conundrum as mentioned in the dossiers.

Both nations leaders need to co-operate with each other and try on reconciling the disputed cause along with curbing the terrorism spurt. Recently the Fidayeens (suicide bombers) have crossed the border and attacked back to back two places, Gurdaspur and Udhampur. This shows how vulnerable Indians states are, which share a boundary with Pakistan.  If we talk about vulnerability, don’t forget how macabre Pakistan’s citizens or the depair parents of those children are  with the death massacre inflicted on the innocent school children who had nothing relevance to any extent. How alarmingly both the countries are confronting egregious circumstances is explicit in nature.

This calls for a comprehensive set of agendas, pursued to its core and solving the deeply entrenched problems. Pakistan needs to respect India as a senior partner , whose regional clout is well known. India in return needs to resolve every aspects that has a detiorating effect on itself while  dealing with Pakistan .The regional co-operation is in dire need to improve the trade and connectivity issue to revamp the economic status of the country. Mr Modi is well aware of the fact that this was the biggest assertion(curbing terrorism) while coming to the power . The Prime Minister is invited by Mr Nawaz Sharif in 2016 for SAARC Summit which could pertain such old issues. Every sane individual hopes the upcoming meet could break the impasse and proceed with the said points in implementation and re-building the trust of citizen for nation’s concerns.

(Completely based on memory. )