Musharraf excels in terror diplomacy: Shows India in poor light
Musharraf excels in terror diplomacy: Shows India in poor light
By MOHAN SAHAY in New Delhi, July 20 2006
It would be a journalistic coup of sorts if one finds out the secret behind Pakistan President Gen Parvez Musharraf’s excellence in ‘diplomatic communication. No doubt he is a master communicator that even George Bush would envy.
Musharraff’s address to the nation telecast live in Pakistan and India on the night of Thursday, the 20th of July 2006 on 7 / 11 serial bomb explosions in Mumbai shows New Delhi and the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in poor light. Not that what Gen Musharraf said about his government resolve to fight terror groups operative in Pakistan and that he and his government has been seriously and sincerely fighting terrorism not only on his home turf but also on Afghanistan is a gospel truth. For sheer diplomatic nuances and choice of words {arvez Musharraff sounded convincing.
First, when he said inter alia “…. suspension of peace talks by India is a defeat at the hands of the terrorists who indeed want the bilateral peace talks to derail…”/
Secondly, his words sounded genuine when he chose to directly communicate ( address ) to the Indian citizens of Mumbai expressing his deep sense of sorrow and strong condemnation of the dastardly act of terror bomb blasts in Mumbai.
At the face of it, India appeared in haste in reacting to the Mumbai blasts by squarely blaming Pakistan for abetting the Mumbai train explosions without first having got any clinching evidence against the Pakistan government’s role directly or indirectly in the Mumbai blasts.
It was not a knee jerk reaction of New Delhi. On the contrary, the Indian Government propelled by its bureaucratic hegemony over the government decided as a matter of policy to blame Pakistan and the terrorists outfits like the Lashkar and the Jaish for triggering the blasts for the cover of the Indian government and its political leadership’s failure to give a befitting response to acts of terror and violence in the country. The NDA government led by A B Vajpayee being equally a passive onlooker to all those acts of violence including attack on Indian Parliament in 2001.
No wonder, the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh shortly before Musharraff’s address admitted in New Delhi that India’s response to terrorism was “ inadequate”.
Now for the other side of the story of Pakistan Gen Musharraff cannot plead ignorance about the role of his country’s Inter Services Intelligence, the role of Pakistan high commission in New Delhi and the role of the fugitive underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahmi who is holed up in Pakistan enjoying covert patronage of the government officials and rulers of Pakistan.
Should Musharraff want so, he could smoke Ibrahim out of his hole and hand over the gangster to India – that he won’t do.
That the ring leaders of the Lashkar – e – Tyba and Jaishe – e – Mohammad over overtly operating in Pakistan as groups of terror modules against India is known to the Pakistani President. Again, in the name of the so called war of liberation or war for freedom in Jammu & Kashmir, the Pakistan government won’t act against the terror groups having India as their target. Albeit, Gen Musharraf is honest in telling his countrymen and to the world that Pakistan is sincere in uprooting terror groups being part of the ‘ coalition against terror’. True, Pakistan did cooperated with Washington in the hot pursuit of Md Bin Laden and his Al Qaida network in Afghanistan. Yet, the where about of Laden remains a mystery and Pakistan has not come helping to the US government.
Even 1 /10th of what Musharraff and his government did in forcing Laden and his men into the hiding was done in uprooting Hizbul Muzahedin, the Let , the JeM and the likes targeting only India from the soils of Pakistan, the terror heat would subside and may even end in India. Would you care Gen Musharraff ?
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By MOHAN SAHAY in New Delhi, July 20 2006
It would be a journalistic coup of sorts if one finds out the secret behind Pakistan President Gen Parvez Musharraf’s excellence in ‘diplomatic communication. No doubt he is a master communicator that even George Bush would envy.
Musharraff’s address to the nation telecast live in Pakistan and India on the night of Thursday, the 20th of July 2006 on 7 / 11 serial bomb explosions in Mumbai shows New Delhi and the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in poor light. Not that what Gen Musharraf said about his government resolve to fight terror groups operative in Pakistan and that he and his government has been seriously and sincerely fighting terrorism not only on his home turf but also on Afghanistan is a gospel truth. For sheer diplomatic nuances and choice of words {arvez Musharraff sounded convincing.
First, when he said inter alia “…. suspension of peace talks by India is a defeat at the hands of the terrorists who indeed want the bilateral peace talks to derail…”/
Secondly, his words sounded genuine when he chose to directly communicate ( address ) to the Indian citizens of Mumbai expressing his deep sense of sorrow and strong condemnation of the dastardly act of terror bomb blasts in Mumbai.
At the face of it, India appeared in haste in reacting to the Mumbai blasts by squarely blaming Pakistan for abetting the Mumbai train explosions without first having got any clinching evidence against the Pakistan government’s role directly or indirectly in the Mumbai blasts.
It was not a knee jerk reaction of New Delhi. On the contrary, the Indian Government propelled by its bureaucratic hegemony over the government decided as a matter of policy to blame Pakistan and the terrorists outfits like the Lashkar and the Jaish for triggering the blasts for the cover of the Indian government and its political leadership’s failure to give a befitting response to acts of terror and violence in the country. The NDA government led by A B Vajpayee being equally a passive onlooker to all those acts of violence including attack on Indian Parliament in 2001.
No wonder, the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh shortly before Musharraff’s address admitted in New Delhi that India’s response to terrorism was “ inadequate”.
Now for the other side of the story of Pakistan Gen Musharraff cannot plead ignorance about the role of his country’s Inter Services Intelligence, the role of Pakistan high commission in New Delhi and the role of the fugitive underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahmi who is holed up in Pakistan enjoying covert patronage of the government officials and rulers of Pakistan.
Should Musharraff want so, he could smoke Ibrahim out of his hole and hand over the gangster to India – that he won’t do.
That the ring leaders of the Lashkar – e – Tyba and Jaishe – e – Mohammad over overtly operating in Pakistan as groups of terror modules against India is known to the Pakistani President. Again, in the name of the so called war of liberation or war for freedom in Jammu & Kashmir, the Pakistan government won’t act against the terror groups having India as their target. Albeit, Gen Musharraf is honest in telling his countrymen and to the world that Pakistan is sincere in uprooting terror groups being part of the ‘ coalition against terror’. True, Pakistan did cooperated with Washington in the hot pursuit of Md Bin Laden and his Al Qaida network in Afghanistan. Yet, the where about of Laden remains a mystery and Pakistan has not come helping to the US government.
Even 1 /10th of what Musharraff and his government did in forcing Laden and his men into the hiding was done in uprooting Hizbul Muzahedin, the Let , the JeM and the likes targeting only India from the soils of Pakistan, the terror heat would subside and may even end in India. Would you care Gen Musharraff ?
ends
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