Pak to raise ‘all core issues’ with India during Feb.25 foreign secretaries meet
February 13th, 2010 - 11:49 am ICT by ANI ( 1 comment )
Islamabad. Feb.13 (ANI): Pakistan has said that it would raise ‘all core issues’ with India during the forthcoming foreign secretary level talks scheduled to take place in New Delhi on February 25.
The decision was taken during an important meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and attended by foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and Kashmir Parliamentary Committee Chairman Fazlur Rehman.
Sources privy to the meeting said the leadership opined that Islamabad must raise all core issues and call for their early resolution through the resumption of composite dialogueduring the upcoming deliberations.
During the meeting, Gilani told Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir that the February 25 talks should be “result-oriented and meaningful.”
Bashir said Pakistan is ready to discuss all issues, including terrorism emanating from the neighbouring soil, which has been a major concern for India.
We will go to Delhi with an open mind and steer the discussions towards a positive direction. An open-ended dialogue will take us nowhere,” Bashir said.
New Delhi had earlier made it clear that resumption of talks at any level was not possible unless Islamabad takes substantial action against Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) and its front face Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD).
India has pressing Pakistan to prosecute JuD chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, who is considered the mastermind of the ghastly Mumbai terror attacks.
The proposed foreign secretary level talks will see India and Pakistan resume deliberations after a hiatus of 14 months after 26/11. (ANI)
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February 13th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Though it may look ridicules and inconsistent here, three main reasons compel me to bring this issue here as I perfectly know that Pakistan itself has so many pressing issues that need to be dealt with when it comes to its bilateral relationship with Imperial India. Nevertheless, I feel it necessary that people of Pakistan and Bangladesh should know as to how Nepal is being forced to be a colony of India against the will of its people.
Firstly, I assume that most Pakistani and Bangladeshi people assume automatically that Nepal is an independent nation. Albeit, it is not. So, I want the people of Pakistan and Bangladesh to know the fact that, with all practical consideration, Nepal is a mere colony of Imperial India. Its economy and trade is dominated and controlled by a handful of family of Indian origin. What more is that the political landscape and the civil service of the country is on the hand of New Delhi, as without the blessing of Imperial India no one can expect to rule the nation. In fact all kings of Nepal used to receive blessing from New Delhi and all ministers of Nepal still receive blessing from their imperial masters in New Delhi. Also, all natural resources, including rivers and forest products of Nepal, are under the jurisdiction of New Delhi through one or other treaty. These may explain you why Nepal is a mere colony of Imperial India.
Secondly, India has been occupy a substantial part of ethnic Nepali territory as a result of which against their will millions of ethnic Nepali people are forced to leave a life of a foreigner in their own homeland, and I think that not many Pakistani and Bangladeshi people know this fact. For Imperial India is continuing to occupy the territory of Nepal that Imperial Britain had occupied and annexed during its rule in South Asia. For this reason Nepal as a nation remain divided into two parts much in the same way Germany was divided into two part during the Cold War era: one part is the squeezed territory of Nepal that can be seen in the map of the modern day world while the other part is the Nepal’s territory in Darjeeling, Sikkim, Kumaon and garwal that remain occupied by Imperial India. Note should be made that with all practical considerations this occupation of Nepali territory by New Delhi can only be viewed as the occupation of the land of Palestine by Israel.
Thirdly, since all those who make their living in Kathmandu by playing the game of politics are in the pay roll of New Delhi so there is no one to advocate the cause of Nepali people, and in particular their aspirations for national independence, including freeing the occupied territory from the colonial yoke of Imperial India. So, I would like to make a pledge with the Pakistan and Bangladesh governments to advocate the cause of Nepal with Imperial India. For I strongly believe that small nations such as Nepal, Kashmir, Assam, Nagalanda, Imphal, Bhutan and Manipur, Megalaya etc deserve independence from the colonial yoke of Imperial India, and unless these nations are freed there will not be any hope of peace in South Asia. Let alone any prosperity. For Imperial India is sucking these nations as a leech.