Crossfire War - Accusations Against India/Pakistan Over Lack of Progress

By Willard Payne

Crossfire War - TEHRAN WATCH - South Asia Theatre: Tehran - Islamabad/Delhi; "Open Letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf" - P N Duda Senior Advocate of Supreme Court - Accuses Both Governments of Encouraging Kashmir Dispute

Night Watch: DELHI - The linked article is an undestandably angry letter to both governments and their leaders Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - India and President General Pervez Musharraf - Pakistan, from P N Duda, and it is his forceful complaint over the lack of genuine effort by both governments to solve the Kashmir problem. Duda described himself as a, "Kashmiri Pandit, professionally a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court. A witness of the partition and began following events there since Sheikh Abdullah's political honeymoon till his betrayal and rape." That is a reference to the Muslim leader in Kashmir who attempted to work with Delhi, until Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrested him in 1953 where he was imprisoned for 11 years. [KASHMIROBSERVER]

Duda accuses, writes that he has been, "Grossly and malevolently affected and suffering from your false vanities and megalomaniac fits and outbursts. For your lusts for remaining in power by keeping your two countries in perpetual fear and scare, begging for arms, spending taxpayer's money on arms and ammunitions for ghost fears, depriving your citizens of light and water in preference to preventing self-immolation and suicides." Analysts have stated over the years that Delhi and Islamabad have used the conflicts over Kashmir as a way of distracting their populations from domestic problems within both countries.

P N Duda states that in the current milieu the Kashmir population can be divided sharpely into five distinct groups and aims:

1. Complete independence
2. Merge with Pakistan
3. Merge with India
4. Autonomy under Pakistan
5. Autonomy under India

I would guess that if a free referendum were ever held the first choice would win. The United Nations has been calling for that vote since 1949 and India was going to allow it until they realized they were going to lose control over the state and its Muslim population.

But as crossfirewar.com has stated repeatedly the difference this time is Tehran. Earlier this month Islamabad said publicly how wonderful it is that not only is Iran Pakistan's neighbor but that Iran has become so powerful. The security agreements Tehran-Islamabad have is an obvious extension of the Khomeini revolution, which established Tehran's government in 1979. The Islamic uprising against India began 10 years later that November and Tehran's support is an open secret though they still officially present a deceptive facade of cooperation with Delhi.

Tehran had as much a role in the Mumbai bombings in July as Islamabad. There are terror cells all over India just as Tehran has put them in place in Europe and North America. During this November Tehran will be joining the fourth major war between Pakistan/India. I suspect what Tehran-Islamabad have planned are the creation of buffer states in northern India as a barrier between Pakistan and the central and southern part of the sub-continent still controlled by Hindus.

But what P N Duda termed the 'Saffron Cult' can prevent any real steps Singh may dare take in order to resolve peacefully the conflict with Pakistan. Saffron is the orange tinted color of the turbans worn by Hindu religious - nationalist leaders and they have always refused to entertain any suggestions of serious negotiations over Kashmir. It was their Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, which started the nuclear explosions tests in 1998, directed at Pakistan and perhaps China also. It was their diseased influence Nehru warned India about just before his death in 1964. He, and no doubt, P N Duda remember, that it was Hindu extremists who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 because he tried to make peace between Mulims and Hindus.

Advocate Duda indicated that before Singh can take any positive steps he would first have to convince the 'Saffron Cult' but they would regard such measures as political sacrilege, an extreme disgrace to everything they, and of course they would say that India stands for, perhaps even tantamount to national suicide. Singh's life would be at risk if he made any attempt to allow a referendum in Kashmir.

Night Watch Information Service
http://www.crossfirewar.com