Failure would invite mediation
It is unusual to hear BJP leaders speaking in undertones over the sentence awarded to Kalbhushan Jadhav by a military court in Pakistan. Sushma Swaraj has announced that India would send the best lawyers to defend him before Pakistan’s Supreme Court and also approach President Mamnoon Hussain, who is authorised to grant pardon to those sentenced to death. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, too, has spoken cautiously on the matter. There are in fact so many holes in the narrative fabricated by New Delhi that convincing any independent observer of Jadhav’s innocence would be an uphill task.
Nawaz Sharif has meanwhile reiterated that Pakistan wants to have good relations with its neighbours and is willing to enter into talks to resolve the outstanding problems. He has also called upon the US to mediate between Pakistan and India on the issue of Kashmir. National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua has told the Canadian High Commissioner in Islamabad that Pakistan and India can’t be enemies forever. Further, that both need to engage with each other to resolve their disputes. India needs to accept the offer to stop the relations from deteriorating further as this suits neither the two neighbours nor the world at large.
It is time for India to realise that sending saboteurs to Balochistan can only further embitter relations between the neighbours. Islamabad, on its part, should vigorously pursue the trial of those behind the horrendous Mumbai terrorist attacks and earnestly conduct investigations into the Pathankot attack.
By refusing to hold talks with Pakistan, India is getting itself isolated. The world wants the two nuclear states to resolve the difference rather than go to war. All stake holders in Indian occupied Kashmir want New Delhi to enter into a meaningful dialogue with Pakistan. They include the Hurieyat, the Kashmiri protesters and CM Mehbooba Mufti. In a recent interview with an Indian daily, veteran Kashmiri leader Farooq Abdullah has called for a solid move to start dialogue with Pakistan. In case of India showing reluctance for a bilateral approach, Abdullah has called for US mediation.
You purchase an Indian citizen from the Afghan Taliban which kidnapped him from Iran and then call him a Indian intelligence agent.
This was reported by one of your own journalists in Afghanistan.
How can you guys not comprehend that an intelligence agent does not carry his home country passport?
The very fact that Jadhav is denied consular access itself goes on to prove that Pakistanis are at their illegal best again.
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