There are certain countries with which
you can never have peace or friendship. The objective simply has to be to avoid
a major military conflict. The recent act of GOI calling off the Secretary
level talks with Pakistan is a very welcome one. In January 2013 I wrote the
post “No friendship with barbarians”
after our Jawans were killed and their bodies mutilated. Pakistan is a country
with no honour. I do not see any difference between the ISIS and Pakistan
except that the latter’s army wears better clothes. And maybe some Pakis also
speak English. I just have to repeat what I wrote at the end of that post
again:
“I have stated
before and say it again; peace with Pakistan is NOT possible. We need not wage
war but there is no way a nation from which many have promised a 1000-year
Jihad against India can ever be true friends. This is like expecting Iran to
become a friend of Israel. Not happening! This sucking up to and molly-coddling
Pakistan is just another feature of ‘Muslim vote-bank’ politics by our govt and
nothing more. As far as our national interest is concerned Pak has nothing to
offer; not even a small safety pin. For all our genuine gestures of goodwill we
have only got barbaric acts in return. It’s time to dump this charade”.
Our media tends to forget the past and
keep pressing for bogus dialogues with Pak. The reason for this is simple: The
process will never reach a clear conclusion but some of our media crooks and
some activists get to line their pockets and be beneficiaries of luxury junkets
at the goodwill of their Pak masters. When Narendra
Modi took over as PM he extended a goodwill gesture to all SAARC Heads and
invited them to his swearing-in ceremony. This was extended to Nawaz Sharif
too.
That gesture was blindly being read by
many in the media as a thaw in relations. A goodwill gesture needs to be
reciprocated. India agreed to secretary level talks scheduled on August 25.
Instead of reciprocating the goodwill gesture the Pak envoy chose to organise a
meeting with Kashmiri separatists on August 18 and 19. The Hurriyat and other
separatists in Kashmir are being encouraged by Pak and this is clearly an
unnecessary hindrance and hurdle. The Congress started kicking and screaming
about it as did our media. They all screamed it was a bad gesture by Pakistan
on the eve of scheduled talks. This is not the first time. Former Pak minister
Hina Rabbani Khar also met the separatists on her official visit to India in
2011. How the Congis responded to the border-killings in January 2013 can be
seen in the tweets of Barkha Dutt
and a response to her. Do note the man in charge then was Salman Khurshid who said about the killings “we will absorb, we will analyse” and then take up the matter
with Pakistan. The Congis did nothing. One of their ministers (Shashi Tharoor) was moderating a debate
between Pak and Indian journalists the next day on “Track-2” diplomacy. So what is out-of-job Salman Khurshid doing
now? Here’s the answer:
So this Salman Khurshid who was impotent
as the External Affairs Minister realised he could do more with a bunch of
media crooks and political pimps in a self-styled “Track-2” diplomacy effort.
There’s Barkha Dutt, Sudheendra
Kulkarni, Dileep Padgaonkar, Ved Pratap Vaidik (who also met Hafiz Saeed),
Salman Khurshid and not in the picture is S.
Varadarajan aka Varadabhai. The trip was organised by none other than Manishankar Aiyar, the automated filth
generator. So while the Kashmiri separatists want Kashmir to break from India
and/or accede to Pakistan these “Track-2” guys are no different from them. They
too meet former Pak military personnel and assorted India-haters, who have
connections with the ISI, with a mission unknown to the world. Dileep
Padgaonkar, the Intellectual Moron, has also played a long innings for Ghulam
Nabi Fai, another ISI funded crook. Some of these guys are now lecturing the
Modi govt on how to deal with Pak. They are nothing more than brokers who earn
their money from both parties to a deal. Why would they want peace? Do these
brokers really think they are really helping any cause or are out to do any good?
They just like the junkets, luxurious hotels (and other cash or incentives in
kind?) in return for peddling the Pak line of dialogue. Varadabhai and another one
called Shammy Baweja are upset that
the GOI called of the talks over the Pak envoy fiddling with the separatists.
Any surprise?
These guys don’t want the govt to work
its own way through the troublesome relationship with Pakistan. They want their
will to be imposed. The culture of alleged journalists playing the role of
brokers and interlocutors started around 1999 and graduated under the Sonia Gandhi govt. It was a govt where NGOs, lobbyists and brokers decided more policies
than the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. The change in govt is increasingly
making them volatile and angry. Their brokerage and pimping business has come
to a grinding halt. On one hand the Modi govt is not offering juicy titbits and
gossip to the dead-beat hangers-on.
Access journalism has taken a beating. And on the other, Modi doesn’t give two
hoots to what the MSM says or thinks. He is quite aware they are irrelevant to
the national discourse because people don’t trust the MSM anymore for honest
discourse. Almost every observer knows there many prominent media celebs who
are “useful idiots” for Pakistan and
other anti-national forces. The grapevine is sometimes more reliable than the
news and Delhi circles do get a feel of this as this snippet indicates:
The IB knows what observers in the
public domain already know. People on Social Media know who these Pak agents in
our media are. It has become all too obvious. Some of the spokies and
separatists who appeared on Timesnow have their kids studying abroad. One has
to wonder where they get all their money from. I don’t think the Kashmiris are
fond of these separatists and are pouring money into their coffers. These separatists
do not find any acceptance in elections either. So where do they get all their money from? Your guess is as good as
mine. The only place they frequently find friends and sympathy is on NDTV and
with Barkha Dutt. There cannot and should not be any talks with Pakistan till
such time terrorism stops completely. There must be at least a period of one
full year without any terrorism or LOC violations. Knowing Pakistan as we do,
they cannot survive one month without violating such conditions. An independent
writer puts it as bluntly as anyone can do:
Whether it is the separatists or the
rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits I am quite sure that Narendra Modi will act
on it in due course. There are many problems India faces and Pakistan need not be anywhere on our
priorities. That failed state has
nothing to offer to us. They can keep meeting these separatists and the
Track-2 brokers and jokers. We now have a govt we can trust to prioritise national interest than pandering
to the interests of these brokers or mollycoddling Pakistan. There is a PM
who makes the decisions not some puppet on a string. Pakistan too will get that
message sooner than later.
