Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Secretary in Pakistan-2

The lists of demands/requests/grievances are a long one. First of all is the Kashmir issue. The United States does not want to get involved in a situation where there is no solution. India will never give up Kashmir and Pakistan would not either. There is no give or take of any sort on either side. On the question of United Nations resolutions for Kashmir, it has been 62 years (1948) since they were enacted and the world has changed since then.

To be fair, the United States does not see any role for it to be a mediator or force either of the parties to a negotiating table. And in this case, India always have the upper hand since the majority of the Islamic countries don’t care much about Kashmir and the Indian lobby in the U.S. keeps the issue of Kashmir on the back burner. Furthermore, India has been a democracy from the start as compared to Pakistan, and Pakistan’s own effort to formant Jihad (or terrorist activities whatever you want to call them) has not sit well with the international community and has in fact been detrimental in presenting its case of Kashmir self determination. So unless Pakistan uses more diplomatic channels and less confrontational ways (like aiding terror groups in its own country), it has the least bit of chance of ever involving Muslim countries to its side let alone the United States.

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