The Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on 9th December 2015 at the side lines of Heart of Asia Conference said that India and Pakistan have decided to restart composite dialogue. In her speech in the conference she said, “It is time we [Pakistan and India] display maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other… the entire world is watching and we must not disappoint them”. Nothing can benefit Afghanistan more immediately than full and direct access to India’s markets to enable it to take advantage of the zero-duty regime, she said. In conclusion, Swaraj referred to the historic Grand Trank (GT) road constructed by Sher Shah Suri 450 years ago, connecting Kolkata and Kabul. “That road exists till today, reminding us of our shared destiny.”
Comment:
Indian External Affairs Minister’s visit to Pakistan and her comments regarding peace and dialogue surprised almost everyone in Pakistan because since 26 May 2014, the day the BJP assumed power in India, the Modi government has been very hostile against Pakistan, consistently killing civilians and soldiers across the Line of Control (LoC) between Occupied Kashmir and Pakistan, and the adjacent Working Boundary, and cancelled meetings of foreign ministers and secretary level talks. However, this was not the first incident which surprised political observers. Prior to Sushma visit, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on 30 November 2015 exchanged pleasantries on the sidelines of the 21st UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, which was followed by Indian and Pakistani National Security Advisers led delegations for talks in Bangkok on 6 December 2015. The joint press released announced the meeting between Pakistani NSA Lt. Gen (Retd.), Nasir Khan Janjua, and Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretaries Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhury and S. Jaishankar, and said the discussions covered “peace and security, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, and other issues, including tranquility along the LoC”. This meeting of national security advisors was even more surprising than the meeting of Nawaz and Modi because before that meeting General Raheel through his mouth pieces in media was giving an impression that he is not in favour of the Nawaz Indian policy, rather he wants a strong stance from the political side of the government. However after the appointment of Lt. Gen (Ret.) Nasir Khan Janjua, a close aide to him, as National Security Advisor, General Raheel no longer presents himself as a follower of the popular sentiment of people of Pakistan against India.
Significantly this sudden start of meetings between the two arch rivals is not a self-propelled agenda by the two sides, rather it was initiated by America. One of the leading English newspapers of Pakistan in its 11 December 2015 edition, carried a front-page story reporting that “The two countries, helped by US, UK and Germany, made quick progress in the past 10 days from the ice-breaker in Paris to an agreement in Islamabad on resuming dialogue after a hiatus of nearly two years”.
After the Indian change of heart, Saudi Arabia announced the formation of a thirty-four Muslim countries military alliance to fight “terrorism” in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and without any surprise Pakistan is part of it because General Raheel had already made an extensive visit to Saudi in October. So it seems that in order to facilitate the traitors in Pakistan’s political and military leadership in committing troops, against any opposition raising the Indian hostility issue, America ordered India to tone down her rhetoric and aggression significantly and immediately. As for India, her change of sudden stance will not go out without reward, as construction of TAPI gas pipe line has been inaugurated, which will bring great relief to the Indian economy, which is in dire need of energy, turning the wheels for her industry and providing much needed access to Muslim markets from Lahore to Central Asia.
Any observer of the Pakistan-India rivalry knows that Pakistan will not get anything from dialogue from India. India will never leave Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, or resolve any other matter of significant concern as America will never allow it. The road to progress and economic prosperity lies in the unification of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries as a single Khilafah state upon the method of the Prophethood. Then the Khilafah will hold the dominant economic and military power in the region and energy starved India will not be in a position to keep her hold over Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek and pose any significant aggression. And this can be done very easily as the Muslims of the region have a very strong desire of becoming one. However, it needs some courageous and sincere sons from the armed forces of Pakistan to uproot the traitors in the political and military leadership and provide Nussrah to Hizb ut-Tahrir for the establishment of Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood.
فَلاَ تَهِنُواْ وَتَدْعُوۤاْ إِلَى ٱلسَّلْمِ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلأَعْلَوْنَ وَٱللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَن يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ
“So be not weak and ask not for peace (from the enemies of Islam), while you are having the upper hand. Allah is with you, and will never decrease the reward of your good deeds.”
(Muhammad: 35)
Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan