American correction of its faulty South Asia policy bodes well for ‘regional peace and stability’
Kathmandu: A famous Latin saying goes: Cjus region ejus religio. Its literal translation is: “The religion prevails whose rule exists”.
The Latin saying fits into Nepali politics as if it were made only for Nepal.
This means that the country’s politics and religion are best determined by the attitude and the behavioral pattern of the one who is seated in the “power corridor”.
Its logical extension or for that matter the expansion would be somewhat like this:
The Country will run as per the whims of the fanatic ruler(s).
If so then let’s presume that “we the people” of this country are being ruled by fanatics who under the cover of politics have been looting the nation mercilessly since the very calculated and designed ouster of the two-and-a-half-centuryold institution of the monarchy. Needless to say, India was the designer.
Needless to say, any political chaos of upheaval in this part of the world is being best carried out by regional bullyobviously India and thus the Nepali monarchy too became the well-planned and targeted victim of the RAW machination plus the South Block that charts the “fate” of India’s bordering countries.
To cut it short, the alien declared the recognized inimical force(s) which ousted the Nepali monarchy in ‘understood collaboration’ with the domestic posted and paid agents of the Indian spy agency — the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) moulded the politics as the Latin saying goes stated in the earlier paragraphs. Thus Nepal is being ruled by the Indian authorities/ Babu Sahebs, however, for public consumption in Nepal, some Nepali faces with distinct Indian tilt have been deputed to control Nepal which ever remained an independent and sovereign country on the world map.
Though Nepal is still a sovereign and independent nation, the de facto ruler is outside the Nepali territory.
Let’s not waste our precious time and energy talking about the politics of a country that has already become the tail of the regional scoundrel — India –recognized as the number one expansionist country in the globe which controls Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Thanks, Pakistan is the lone country which competes and rebuffs the hegemonic behavior of its born rival India.
The issue of Kashmir and the German bombshell: The German Foreign Minister has set the political ball rolling. It was almost a high-sounding blast that almost shook Delhi’s power corridors. Better late than never, German Minister Annalena Baerbock on October 7 made in Berlin a special reference to India Occupied Jammu and Kashmir wherein she stated, “Germany supports the U. N. role in resolving the Kashmir dispute, and praised the LoC (Line of Control) cease fire agreement of February 2021, and also called for a “political” dialogue between India and Pakistan”.
German FM’s remarks made in Berlin must have come to India as a bolt from the blue as India takes Germany as its darling and had hoped that this country shall never go against Indian stances on international issues such as that of Kashmir’s disputed territory.
Indian irritation must have taken a new height as Annalena has mentioned the role of the UN and also talked of “political dialogue” between the two nations who claim their sovereign rights over Kashmir.
The use of the word “dispute” by the minister from Germany appears to have irritated India to the hilt in that the Kashmir issue, as India takes it for granted, is not an issue of dispute at all.
For India and Indians, Kashmir entirely belonged to India and that the part or for that matter the portion of Kashmir which falls in the territory of Pakistan too is a forcibly occupied landmass by rival Pakistan.
What must have pained the Indian establishment, let’s presume with whatever experience we have collected, so far, that the German Foreign Minister spoke all these in front of the Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto and that too at a joint press conference held in Berlin.
This must have been too much for the “deputed” policeman of South Asia. This was not all.
More to come: FM Annalena told straight that her country, Germany has a role and responsibility concerning the situation of Kashmir. Therefore, we support intensively the engagement of the United Nations to find peaceful solutions in the region”. To add fuel to the fire, the German statement on Kashmir came immediately after the Germany-Pakistan bilateral talks wherein she without a chewing word
said, “Germany has a role as well a responsibility” apparently hinting at the resolution of the Kashmir dispute in an amicable manner. Does she hint that Germany is ready for mediation?
In her statement what is also to be carefully noted is that Germany too deems the role of the United Nations necessary. In saying so she must have hinted to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guetteras to implement the Security Council resolutions made over the past decades for the early resolutions of the overly stretched Kashmir dispute.
For reasons unknown to the intellectuals across the globe, why the UNSC resolutions made in the past have never been brought into execution is what has been puzzling the minds of the literati in the world which, as a net result, then allows the men of letter across the world to “suspect” the very motive of the UN
international body.
So far as I recall, a couple of UNSC resolutions were made for resolving the Kashmir dispute once and for all during the time of Indian Prime Minister Pundit, however, the dilly-dallying practices of Nehru himself and his successors allowed “playing space” to the UN body which in turn allowed others to “accuse” that the UNSC body was controlled by India in many more ways than one. Or else, the UNSC has made a resolution holding a plebiscite.
The UN may not have any design, let’s guess, to alter its own previous resolutions, however, the disinclination of the UN body itself in sorting out the Kashmir issue for good does tell so many things unspoken.
But this time the German
Foreign Minister’s straight call for early resolution is something which the UN body can’t hush-hush the matter as it did in the past.
By the way, Pakistan too has come of age and the UN Body too can’t summarily keep the Kashmir issue under the carpet.
The Berlin-Islamabad bilateral talks and the emergence of the official statement in the German capital mean something for the UN body which can’t and shouldn’t be ignored for long.
Looking from the South Asian spectrum, what is guaranteed is that the two rival nations in South Asia have fought several wars for Kashmir and yet Kashmir remains a flashpoint which may time and again bring the two hostile nations, India and Pakistan to the war fronts.
The US too explodes on Kashmir:
In fact, two political bombshells of high magnitude shook the South Block earth in recent days.
In a rare gesture, the US Ambassador based in Islamabad, Pakistan, headed towards the disputed area of Kashmir. New Delhi’s eardrum must have flattened when it heard the US Ambassador Donald Blome saying from the land of what the Ambassador mentioned Pakistan administered “Azad Kashmir” many times more so he referred to the region as AJK — a word that is anathema to the Indian establishment. As far as this scribe recalls, Ambassador Blome’s visit to Azad Kashmir could be the first ever one from the sitting envoy of the US and that too based in Islamabad to have entered into the Pakistanadministered territory of Kashmir thus allowing “political commentators” to guess that the US policy on Pakistan after the ouster of Imran Khan has not only improved but attained a new height that has stunned New Delhi’s hawks.
The sudden visit of the US envoy Donald Blome to Muzaffarabad has come at a crucial time when India for various known and unknown political reasons is pretty annoyed with Washington when the latter approved an F-16 aid package to rival Pakistan in the name of “countering” terrorism. In a way, the US aid package meant for Pakistan could be taken as a grand departure from the US policy acquired on Pakistan in recent years more so when Imran Khan was the Prime Minister. Some rumors even had it that one American minister, Donald Lu remained instrumental in dismantling IK’s regime through the express orders of the Apex court of Pakistan.
Since then Imran Khan believes that he was ousted from the chair through a grand design which comprised the US and domestic political forces that were “close” to the US administration. However, whatever may have been the case internal to Pakistan, the US’s fresh “political logical slant” towards Pakistan bodes not only well for Pakistan but entire South Asia’s regional stability. Moreover, the US envoy Donald Blome’s sudden visit to Muzaffarabad does also tell that not only Pakistan but the Kashmir dispute also, better late than never, is now in the penetrating eyes of the US administration.
To recall, Minister Donald Lu had stated that Imran Khan’s exit from the government will only improve its somewhat “cold” ties with Islamabad.