Some partners of the ruling party are adamant that sporting contacts are undesirable as long as terrorism goes unabated. It is not insignificant that there was no decision in Islamabad to hold a Pakistan-India cricket match in Sri Lanka. But it helps Pakistan to get massive assistance from the West in the name of resolving the Afghan situation, he added. Creating a facade of normalcy while firing continues on the border and terrorists keep infiltrating into India will only hurt India. The logic of the dialogue is only that even adversaries should remain in contact so that no nuclear weapons are launched on any misunderstanding. No one expects that Pakistan will abandon the 'core issue' of Kashmir and agree on other matters, just as India cannot be expected to make concessions on Kashmir. “What was then the compulsion for India to rush to comprehensive talks?” he posed the question. As for the visit of the prime minister for the Saarc conference, this was already announced. He reminded that that the enemies of the United States like Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat visited New York for UN conferences without budging on their policies to the United States. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj could have visited Islamabad for the Heart of Asia Conference without having to make any concession to Pakistan Sreenavasan wrote just a day ahead of the statement that Indian External Minister will make in her Parliament about her trip to Islamabad. India's motives in making this concession are far from clear. Though it was a sad commentary that the two neighbours had to go to Bangkok to hold the talks, Pakistan promptly seized the opportunity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Resumption of the dialogue without any concession on terrorism was their objective. With that concession by India, Pakistan has succeeded in winning the approbation of its Western patrons by appearing to be eminently reasonable. ![]() The talk of disproportionate use of force from the Indian side and the threat of using tactical nuclear weapons by Pakistan had alarmed the US, the UK and France, who got together to nudge the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers to resume the dialogue and that was possible only if India did not insist that the talks would not include Kashmir. To be able to resume the 'composite dialogue' even by another name, 'Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue' without making any progress on the Mumbai attack trials, except a pious assurance of an 'early completion of the Mumbai trial' is a dream come true for Pakistan.” He said at the outset that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was under international pressure in Paris to relent on his position that terrorism would be the only topic of conversation with Pakistan till the conspirators and perpetrators of the Mumbai attack were brought to book. “Considered from such a perspective, one cannot escape the conclusion that Pakistan has won the Paris-Bangkok-Islamabad round. In an article he has said that to be able to resume the composite dialogue even by another name without making any progress on the Mumbai attack trials is a dream come true for Pakistan. He has maintained that “one cannot escape the conclusion that Pakistan has won the Paris-Bangkok-Islamabad round.” A former ambassador of India and former Governor for India in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) T P Sreenivasan has said that in the long and arduous struggle with Pakistan, it is transient victories that matter, not the final result, because no one knows what the ultimate result would be.
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