Omar Abdullah seeks clarification on GOI’s take on Taliban : Lalit K Kaul
Omar Abdullah seeks clarification on GOI’s take on Taliban
Lalit K Kaul
Mr. Abdullah is worried and why not?
His family’s paymaster’s position has become very tentative because Taliban
does not seem to live up to the expectations of Pakistan. Pakistan was rejoicing
at the prospective Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan because of the assumption of
the intimacy between the two, but Taliban – the progeny of Pakistan – seem to
have grown too big for the Pakistani blanket and too political and pragmatic to
be just bounded by the shared religious doctrine. According to the Pakistani
media, this unexpected attitude of the Taliban towards Pakistan has come as a
shock to her political leadership. What rubbed salt on the wound was the
invitation by the Taliban to the GOI for a meeting in Doha; first time an
officially declared meeting took place between the two. Prior to such meeting, Pakistan
leaders had been rejoicing because according to them the enthroning of Taliban
had made India an outsider in the region; and were also hoping to rein in the
Taliban for liberating Kashmir from India as confirmed by a PTI spokesperson on
a TV channel. Reports are that now the JeM have approached the Taliban on
Kashmir issue to try their luck out. That India is in the loop has shocked Mr
Abdullah and his ilk across the length and breadth of our country, like in
Pakistan. In India this sense of shock is truly secular.
Is it about Morals & Ethics, Mr.
Omar?
If yes, then you need to be
reminded, Mr. Omar, that these two words were never to be found in the
dictionary of your father and grandfather; in fact absence of these two Values
in the National Conference politics is the prime reason for the as of now traumatized
Kashmiri society. Those who laid the foundation for politics of opportunism in
Kashmir cannot bring in morals and ethics when seeking clarifications from, or
asking questions to, the GOI.
Don’t you think Mr. Omar that the US
settled it about the Taliban’s coordinates in the three dimensional space of
international politics, nations and societies by signing a deal with it? If,
Mr. Abdullah, you have any doubt about the US society and State being civilized
then for further clarification you may ask the US President: whom did the US
sign deal with?
Are you so naïve, Mr. Abdullah?
That you inherited political space
and power from your father like your father had inherited from your grandfather,
it is an open secret. Having spent many decades in politics it is only expected
of you that you understand geo-political and geo-economical interests of Nation
States, but the clarification you have sought from the GOI betrays your
ignorance of the same.
Are you so ignorant, Mr Omar? No,
certainly not, but you have an obligation to fulfill for India’s Western
neighbour. By seeking this clarification you, like many others in our country,
have provided grist to the media mills of Pakistan and in return a free
publicity for you that may revive your political fortunes in the Valley.
Time is always ripe, Mr. Abdullah:
Pakistan has given up on Kashmir, as
per the discussions in their media and its leadership is apprehensive of India’s
takeover of the POK/Azad Kashmir including GB. For all you know, China and India
may get to an understanding that the former shall look the other way if the
latter occupies POK & GB subject to the condition that latter takes the
debt liability of CPEC on her shoulders. So, it may be very ripe time for you
to shift your allegiance to India and say good bye to Pakistan.
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