India is the Epicenter of Regional Conflicts and Terrorism in South Asia

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India messed up talks with Pakistan; Modi, Sushma should take responsibility of Indian Failure

Indian media has started blaming the government for collapse of Pakistan-India NSA level talks saying it was Indian insistence that the Pakistani NSA, Sartaj Aziz, should not meet Kashmir’s Hurriyat Conference leaders in Delhi and that the talks would only be on issues of terrorism.

“Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj should take responsibility for the breakdown, Deccan Herald newspaper said in its editorial on Monday.

The Editorial said New Delhi mishandled and messed up the talks plan with unreasonable demands. It was unwise to insist that there should be no meeting between the Pakistani side and the Hurriyat leaders, or that only should terror should be discussed during the talks.

There have been precedents of Hurriyat leaders meeting visiting Pakistani leaders and officials, even when the NDA government was in power. The Vajpayee government had allowed a Hurriyat team to visit Pakistan and talk to the leaders of the government there, including the then President Pervez Musharraf. NDA leaders like L K Advani had held talks with them.India is a democratic country and there is no case for imposing restrictions on some sections of people. Even on this, the government made

bad flip-flops. First, it seemed to be ready to allow the presence of Hurriyat leaders at a reception in the Pakistani High Commission, then reversed the position and placed them under house arrest – which is extra-judicial – only to release them after two hours and then again detain them. Such inconsistency in policy and decision-making shows the government in a poor light, the newspaper reminded the BJP leadership.

Terrorism and ways to deal with terror originating in Pakistan and directed at India should rightly top the agenda of talks between the two countries. But that does not mean that other issues, including Kashmir, should find no place there. Laying down too many red lines does not help to promote the cause of talks. The brinkmanship, the drama, and the rancour and acrimony of the past two days have made the situation worse than it was, the editorial concluded.
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India is world’s first self-declared terrorist state: Ex-Ambassador

Islamabad: India has become the first self-declared terrorist state of the world, with its present defense minister publicly outlining the strategy of waging proxy wars in Pakistan as a state policy; a matter that Pakistan has decided to take up at the UN’s Security Council.

This was opined by Pakistan’s former representative in the UN, Ambassador (r) Masood Khan while addressing a seminar ‘Pakistan’s Nuclear Program: Context and Prospects’, held at the Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad. A number of security experts, officials, researchers and media personnel participated in the session, which was also addressed by Director General-IPS Khalid Rahman and senior IPS associate and security analyst Air Commodore (r) Khalid Iqbal.

Khan said that the recent statements by India’s official representative were yet another testament of the country’s provocative ideology and approach since the inception of Pakistan that also dragged the latter into nuclear race to maintain its defense deterrence. Pakistan, he added, was forced to start developing its own nuclear capabilities after India conducted its first nuclear tests in 1974; then again in 1998 when India disturbed the region’s power equation again by conducting its second series of atomic tests.

Speaking of India’s proxy wars, the speaker divulged that the country had constantly used Afghanistan's land to destabilize Pakistan. He however was assertive that Pakistan can never look at Afghanistan as an adversary, believing that the national interests of both brotherly countries did not lay on divergent plains.

The speaker was of the opinion that Pakistan did the right thing by not signing NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty). He said that even the 188 NPT member countries were now regretting signing it as the treaty was only protecting Israel’s interests which was not even a signatory to this international agreement. Khalid Iqbal, too, reflected strongly over India’s hostile attitude, exclusively presenting the example of its ‘Cold Start Doctrine’ among various other dangerous doctrinal concepts that the country has coined and employed to coerce its neighbors, especially Pakistan.

He was however confident of Pakistan’s defense and deterrence capabilities, stating that not only Pakistan’s nuclear program was completely safe and secure, but it also possesses the ‘second strike’ capability to answer any threats faced.

The speakers were skeptical about India’s inclusion in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and warned that if India becomes NSG member, it will not only try to deprive Pakistan from any nuclear technology transfers, but would also lobby and vote against its inclusion in the group.

The panelists however were unanimous that Pakistan was a safe, secure and responsible nuclear state, a fact that was even endorsed by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry in his recent meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, where he specially praised the nuclear safety controls employed by Pakistan through its Strategic Planning Division.

India is world’s first self-declared terrorist state: Ex-Ambassador

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