{"id":92211,"date":"2019-09-02T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T03:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=92211"},"modified":"2019-09-07T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T03:12:08","slug":"modis-deftness-at-g7-galvanizes-world-support-on-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/modis-deftness-at-g7-galvanizes-world-support-on-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s Deftness At G7 Galvanizes World Support on Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said, Aug. 25, in France, he had no need to help mediate between Pakistan and India over tensions in disputed Kashmir because Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi feels he has it “under control.” (AFP photo)<\/em><\/p>\n

India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was personally invited by the French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the G7 Summit from the sidelines held at Biarritz in France has come back with flying colors, with enhanced global support for India\u2019s position in Kashmir, in that the scrapping of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir is an internal matter of India and that its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir is a bilateral one, writes\u00a0Priyanka Bhardwaj.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump, Modi secured India\u2019s position on Kashmir and reiterated that since both India and Pakistan were part of one country, prior to 1947, they could therefore jointly address their issues to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions, without \u201cburdening\u201d other countries.<\/p>\n

In other words India meant, it intends to keep external powers out of the dispute.<\/p>\n

At the convivial press conference that followed suit, Trump emphatically acknowledged the Indian stand that marks a departure from his repeated pitching of mediation in Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Reinforcing the bilateral aspect of Indo-Pak relations, Modi also highlighted the scope of joint discussions and concerted actions in fighting common concerns of fighting poverty, illiteracy and disease.<\/p>\n

In view of Trump\u2019s special inclination towards advancing U.S. business, especially in the backdrop of U.S.\u2019 bipartisan containment strategy in trade related issues vis-a-vis China, Modi broached the subject and both leaders agreed to address bilateral trade \u201csoon,\u201d thereby generating the required atmospherics.<\/p>\n

Before embarking on talks with Trump and the G7 Summit sessions on climate change and digital economy, Modi had already galvanized French support and Macron declared his deliberate refrain from mediation in Kashmir issue, and then in his whirlwind tours of the UAE and Bahrain Modi furthered the Indian cause.<\/p>\n

These Gulf Muslim nations, traditionally seen as \u201cbenefactors of Pakistan,\u201d conferred honors on him — the UAE presented Modi with its highest civilian award, \u201cOrder of Zayed,\u201d and Bahrain awarded him with \u201cThe King Hamad Order of Renaissance\u201d \u2013 thus enabling New Delhi to push Kashmir issue to the back burner.<\/p>\n

Following the clampdown in Kashmir, Pakistan\u2019s pleas for U.S. mediation, seeking support of various countries including Muslim nations, by imparting a Muslim dimension to the Kashmir matter, to get India declared a pariah state, just as Israel is perceived in the Left-liberal circles of the U.S., have only fallen on deaf ears except for the singular United Nations Security Council closed door meeting, concluding without an official statement.<\/p>\n

Therefore the successes of recently concluded Modi-Trump talks and other visits drove Islamabad to nervousness and its PM Imran Khan resorted to his customary, passionate raising of the spectre of nuclear conflagration that would wreak havoc in the subcontinent, without much of a thought to the intense global opprobrium it would invite for itself.<\/p>\n

Strikingly, the real problem with Pakistan\u2019s strategy is, less the merits of its ill-framed allegations against India than the incoherence in its intentions and actions as it relentlessly continues to shelter, train and fund global jehad that threatens world security and employs Kashmir as a powder keg.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it would be premature to declare Modi\u2019s G7-excursion a full and final victory over Pakistan that benefits sufficient leverage as U.S. troops are yet to withdraw from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the Modi government can opt for the twin challenges, firstly, to maintain its credentials of a vibrant democracy by removal, albeit a phased one, of restrictions on citizens\u2019 rights, accompanied by as minimal a violence and zero killings as has been the case since the clampdown and reorganization of the new minted Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh, and secondly, luring U.S. businesses and energy interests, and turbocharge inflows by overcoming local opposition, politically inspired protectionism and bureaucratic bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

However intransigence these variables may appear, on actualization they are sure to serve as short-term investments in bonding India-U.S. strategically, in turn diminishing Islamabad\u2019s malfeasance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said, Aug. 25, in France, he had no need to help mediate between Pakistan and India over tensions in disputed Kashmir because Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi feels he has it “under control.” (AFP photo) India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was personally invited by the French President Emmanuel Macron to attend…<\/p>\n

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