Pakistan and China' s rant after a closed door informal consultation of the Security Council on Jammu and Kashmir issue is nothing but letting out frustration. While the international community refused to condemn the act of India in scrapping Art 370 of our constitution, Pakistan and it's partner in crime China have their own domestic compulsions to keep Kashmir issue alive. Hence they want the world to believe what is clearly a national statement of China(that Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute) as the voice of the Security Council. Neither India and Pakistan were not present at the meeting. India has firmly refuted the stand of China.
Domestic politics around the sensitive Article 370 have led us to believe that if we take care of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh things will be all right. No doubt it will improve conditions of Kashmiri and help integrate them with rest of India. Pakistan and China will also aggravate their hostilities.
Both the nations have a vested interest in not solving the K problem. Pakistan's survival as a nation depends on the premise that the need for the Army is to get back India held Kashmir and to punish India for taking away large part of the state. China's compulsion is to somehow legitimise it's territorial grab in Tibet and Ladakh by designating it as disputed territories. Hence the Kashmir question would remain on the burner for some time even after the situation in the valley returns to normal.
Those opposing the modification of Art 370 for narrow political posturing are becoming a propaganda tool in the hands of these nations.
The historic blunder of taking the matter to UN( December 1947) have been nullified by the Shimla Agreement 1972. Hence while Kashmir remains a bilateral issue, what we do with our part is purely internal and has no external ramifications. The only issue that remains is how to get back POK. While both Pakistan and China have changed the territorial status of their part of Kashmir unilaterally, it is ridiculous to raise the issue on the same basis . They simply have no locus standi.
People of the country should know that by abrogating Art 370 Govt has enhanced the legitimacy of POK and Aksai Chin as our territory. That is the real reason of China and Pak's concern, not well-being of Kashmiris.
Domestic politics around the sensitive Article 370 have led us to believe that if we take care of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh things will be all right. No doubt it will improve conditions of Kashmiri and help integrate them with rest of India. Pakistan and China will also aggravate their hostilities.
Both the nations have a vested interest in not solving the K problem. Pakistan's survival as a nation depends on the premise that the need for the Army is to get back India held Kashmir and to punish India for taking away large part of the state. China's compulsion is to somehow legitimise it's territorial grab in Tibet and Ladakh by designating it as disputed territories. Hence the Kashmir question would remain on the burner for some time even after the situation in the valley returns to normal.
Those opposing the modification of Art 370 for narrow political posturing are becoming a propaganda tool in the hands of these nations.
The historic blunder of taking the matter to UN( December 1947) have been nullified by the Shimla Agreement 1972. Hence while Kashmir remains a bilateral issue, what we do with our part is purely internal and has no external ramifications. The only issue that remains is how to get back POK. While both Pakistan and China have changed the territorial status of their part of Kashmir unilaterally, it is ridiculous to raise the issue on the same basis . They simply have no locus standi.
People of the country should know that by abrogating Art 370 Govt has enhanced the legitimacy of POK and Aksai Chin as our territory. That is the real reason of China and Pak's concern, not well-being of Kashmiris.
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