Pakistan Blames India for Peace Talk Breakdown

[The HBS Guy]

Pakistan Blames India for Peace Talk Breakdown​

U.S. President Barrack Obama has so far on his trip to Mumbai and New Delhi managed to avoid putting his foot in it when it comes to India’s testy relations with Pakistan.

Mr. Obama has urged the countries to resolve their interests through dialogue and said a stable Pakistan is in India’s interests. The president’s attempt to walk the tightrope, offending neither country, comes as both sides have tried to push him off.

India’s media blamed him on Saturday for failing to mention in a speech on counter-terrorism the role of Pakistani gunmen in carrying out the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, which led to the deaths of more than 160 people.

Now, Pakistan is also trying to destabilize the visit. On Sunday, just as Mr. Obama was flying in to New Delhi from Mumbai, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said in a speech that it was India’s fault that the latest attempts to push peace talks broke down this summer.

“The democratic civil government went out of the way in our peace overtures towards India,” Mr. Zardari said in a speech to a South Asian journalist association. “It would have been most helpful if our initiatives had been welcomed and responded to in a positive manner.”

Mr. Zardari admitted the attacks by Pakistani gunmen on Mumbai had hurt efforts to normalize relations.

“The Mumbai attack has undermined efforts for peace. Pakistan is cooperating in unearthing and bringing to justice the perpetrators of militant acts,” Mr. Zardari said.

India rejects this assertion and says it is near impossible for talks to move ahead while Pakistan continues to stall on trying the seven people it has arrested in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

On the eve of talks between the countries’ foreign ministers in Pakistan in July, which were meant to build confidence, India’s Foreign Secretary G.K. Pillai told an Indian newspaper that India believes Pakistan’s military spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, was involved in planning the Mumbai attacks.

Those comments angered Pakistan, which denies this assertion, and helped lead to the breakdown in talks, which have been suspended since then.

India says it got information on the ISI’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks through its questioning of David Coleman Headley, who was arrested in the U.S. last year for his alleged involvement in the attacks. The U.S. allowed India access to Mr. Headley this summer. Pakistan has denied that India has given it any evidence from that questioning which links the ISI to Mumbai.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has used the run-up to Mr. Obama’s visit to call again for Washington’s mediation in Pakistan’s dispute with India over who should control the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir.

Mr. Obama has astutely avoided getting involved in that dispute on this trip. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since 1947 and the issue remains a major roadblock to better ties.

Indian media on Monday repeated claims made often here that Pakistan is running training camps for militants that fight Indian security forces in its part of Kashmir. Pakistan says it has stopped doing this in recent years and has tried to embarrass India by s saying the protests this summer in Indian-held Kashmir were carried out by stone-wielding youths that want self-rule. More than 100 Kashmiris have died since mid-June in clashes with Indian security forces.

Pakistan Blames India for Peace Talk Breakdown - India Real Time - WSJ

 

[somebozo]

when will indian mindset grow out of immaturity. otherwise we have also arrested raw agents who blasted bombs in lahore and killed innocent people! And indian state sponsership of terrorism in Sri lanka at the hands of LTTE?

 

[sasuke]

when will indian mindset grow out of immaturity. otherwise we have also arrested raw agents who blasted bombs in lahore and killed innocent people! And indian state sponsership of terrorism in Sri lanka at the hands of LTTE?

Otherwise? If there was any evidence of Indian involvement, Pakistan should make it clear to the whole world. Why sweep it under the carpet?

Without any proof .... Please come out of conspiracy theories .... I don't think Pakistani establishment at least the army is going to sit quiet if they find Indian involvement in any blast!

You are just degrading your own country by saying that it is sitting quiet with all the proof.

 

[Rumporum]

Otherwise? If there was any evidence of Indian involvement, Pakistan should make it clear to the whole world. Why sweep it under the carpet?

Without any proof .... Please come out of conspiracy theories .... I don't think Pakistani establishment at least the army is going to sit quiet if they find Indian involvement in any blast!

You are just degrading your own country by saying that it is sitting quiet with all the proof.

I wont comment on RAW agents in Pak given the history between the two will not be surprising to the least that it operates and has to do some activities in Pak as well. What is equally surprising is if there is evidence then why doesn't the establishment bring it out.

Concerning LTTE Somebozo is right in its creation India played a big hand and also it also played a major hand in the elimination of the LTTE as well when the relationship turned sour.

 

[somebozo]

Concerning LTTE Somebozo is right in its creation India played a big hand and also it also played a major hand in the elimination of the LTTE as well when the relationship turned sour.

Only after it became obvious that LTTE would not survive offensive mounted in joint collaboration of Lankan forces and Pakistani advisers. Then india decided to turn the tables for not missing out influence on the post insurgency scenario.

 

[Rumporum]

Only after it became obvious that LTTE would not survive offensive mounted in joint collaboration of Lankan forces and Pakistani advisers. Then india decided to turn the tables for not missing out influence on the post insurgency scenario.

Well it was much earlier actually when India realized during the peace keeping operations that LTTE would not be a stooge.. then the IPKF ended up fighting the LTTE which resulted/lead to the the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi...however in Tamil Nadu the LTTE did have a lot of public support (diminished a bit after the Rajiv assassination).

 

[third eye]

Only after it became obvious that LTTE would not survive offensive mounted in joint collaboration of Lankan forces and Pakistani advisers. Then india decided to turn the tables for not missing out influence on the post insurgency scenario.

Assuming this to be correct the RAW had the wherewithal to do so. Wonder why ISI cannot seem to do the same in Af even after Mush made the U Turn.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Only after it became obvious that LTTE would not survive offensive mounted in joint collaboration of Lankan forces and Pakistani advisers. Then india decided to turn the tables for not missing out influence on the post insurgency scenario.

Not true.We hated LTTE as soon as they started fighting for PRABHAKARAN and forgot about the real problem-denial of rights to the lankan Tamils.Add to that we lost one of our most loved P.M to them!However I completely agree that we had the capability to starve them of their bullets but chose to keep quiet.