President, COAS have different views on Indian threat: Fauzia Wahab

[EjazR]

President, COAS have different views on Indian threat: Fauzia Wahab

* Zardari wants relations based on ‘trade specifics’

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab said that President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani have different views on the current threat from India, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. Talking to the channel, Fauzia Wahab said that there is a difference of views between the president and the COAS when it comes to ‘threat perception’ from India. She said that President Zardari has a vision and wants a paradigm shift in relations with neighbouring countries by the end of his tenure as president. She said that President Zardari wants Pakistan to have relations with its neighbours based on ‘trade specifics’ not ‘security-specifics’.daily times monitor

 

[Tomahawk]

Everyone wish to see the day when Pak-India relations get normal (just as it should be between two neighbor states), but the real question is when?
There should be trade between the two countries but again it would be a temporary solution. Unless, the two countries will not solve the core disputed issues, things will not get better on permanent basis.

 

[blain2]

President Zardari has a vision and wants a paradigm shift in relations with neighbouring countries by the end of his tenure as president.

Well he should get started with this vision and get it done in the next six months..

 

[All-Green]

Well he should get started with this vision and get it done in the next six months..

blain, i would not hold my breath for this to happen.
When a politician attaches something to the end of his tenure, it shall not come to pass...

Kayani will have a different threat perception because he has to mobilize troops and resources when India takes a hawkish stance and starts amassing troops, he has done so twice in recent memory...once as Army Chief and one as DGMO...

Trade is good and should be started, but if our interior minister issues statements regarding Indian involvement in Baluchistan and FATA and India constantly accuses our state machinery as well, then clearly it is very difficult to start open trade without at least some statements by both Governments to help reduce the mistrust and provide some insight to the masses as to what can be gained via peaceful coexistence...the masses need to be convinced that this is the only way forward.

The governments need to commit to peace process without letting any untoward incident nullifying all progress at a latter stage.