Modi is now an almost unconquerable leader in Asia.
Every big power of Asia is recognizing his charismatic image and desirous to extend
friendship. Now, If he wants to become the monarch all he surveys in the Asian
region, he has to set right and then woo the Prime Minister of Pakistan to
become his real friend heart to heart level. All these days, Pakistan, shows their
friendship wrapped in a mask. They say something, but do just the opposite. The
latest development of sending mangoes to Modi to sweeten the relationship, is
another glaring example.
The internal bickerings, political turmoil, loud
noises, quarrels, beatings and the authorities in Khaki’s tremendous control in
some cases, which is more than required are completely producing anarchy
and environment of vandalism in Pakistan. Not that every citizen therein, likes this situation. Simply, they watch,
can’t raise their voices and even raise under the banner of some parties say
led by the ex - cricketer, Imran Khan, authorities ignore or trample their
voices. These inner bickerings and tumultuous environment spread to India, of
course through illegal route. Almost all
the earlier Prime Ministers of Pakistan denied this fact saying some unauthorized forces
create this situation to make a dent in the friendship of India and Pakistan. How
far it is true, is known to every Indian. One thing is sure that even Modi
convinces Japan and China for a better social-economical bonding, it is to be
seen, how he manages to woo Sharif. Can Sharif’s sweet mangoes in a position to
sweeten the ties between these two countries?
No doubt, India live in a bad neighborhood. The other neighbors, who is not that affected
because of Pakistan’s nonsense atrocities to encourage various anti-social activities and also give recognition to various undemocratic parties,
murmur that India shows too much dominance.
But, for the past six decades, India is tolerating Pakistan’s idiosyncrasies without spoiling the
relationship with them totally.
As Modi is trying to extend the business cooperation
with Japan and China and he is somewhat successful, but it is far more difficult to extend a closely knitted
business tie-up and social bonding with Pakistan. There are a lot of lobbies existed in Pakistan who do
not want any hobnobbing beyond an occasional pep talk by the secretary level or
foreign minister level, ratified by the
two Prime Ministers. It is observed that secretaries of both the governments
talk most of the time to settle the ongoing
border issues or the modalities of travel between the two
counters. And, quite often, this type of bilateral talks does not yield any
fruitful proposition. The reason is that there is no gratitude whatsoever, Pakistan,
shows to India’s efforts.
Why these reconciliation efforts fail? Because,
India’s representative is guided by an elected and democratic government and
their Prime Minister, whereas Pakistan is very much controlled by military
authorities in the backdrop of their governance. The elected government in
Islamabad can’t completely overrule General of the army. The turmoil embroiled
Pakistan is facing two major issues, firstly, free their past General Musharaf
from all the clutches of the law and secondly, there should not be any thick friendship
with India, which Mr. Sharif wants sincerely. In Pakistan, the army and its
child the inter services intelligence dominate the government so much that
Sharif can send mangoes to Modi, but he can’t predict the sweetened
relationship with India.
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed power which
instigates cross border terrorism and it creates panic to almost all the
countries bordering them. It will not be prudent for Sharif to act toughly
because in that case, a more like a civil war may crop up in Pakistan. This may affect India’s peace and socialism
with the advent of more nefarious activities out of their severe internal political unrest.
Many political analysts say that diplomats may not
bring desired results, even though they
may sit hours together. They will be more concerned with the fruitfulness of
the issues of eliminating cross border terrorism, establishing a truce with Pakistan
and strengthening the business tie-up to a very limited magnitude. May be the
Diplomats are well acquainted with all these
issues, but their expertise is limited to bureaucratic and institutional
interests rather than national interest.
So, the left out choice is the one to one talk in
happy mode between the two Prime Ministers. One may argue that our erstwhile
Prime Minister Vajpayee had tried to develop a peace accord with them, but not much
ice was melted. The reason that Vajpayee was leading a coalition government
where he had to succumb the pressure of the coalition partners, but in the present scenario, Modi with his absolute majority and firm control of
everyone, can bypass, if someone is obstructing his constructive approach to extend cooperation with Pakistan.
Modi is determined to woo Sharif, but can he come out
of the cave of his army and ISI. Otherwise, sweet mangoes of Sharif will be of
bitter taste in the mouth of Modi.
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