Anand Sahay | J&K: New vistas can open if govt ready to shift focus
Recently, the strong suggestion for “sincere and serious” talks by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif -- although accompanied by the typical Kashmir caveat, possibly for fear of a negative domestic reaction in an election year -- received in India a deprecatory, dismissive, and in some media sections an even supercilious response. Its conditionalities and provisos notwithstanding… it does flag the point that we cannot simply graduate out of the difficulties of our neighbourhood, so hopefully sooner, rather than later we will have to attend to them.” Another former high commissioner of India to Pakistan, Ajay Bisaria, in an opinion piece, commends the fact that the ceasefire on the Line of Control has held and recommends the continuing of “quiet, creative diplomacy, with managed expectations, to create conditions for peace breakthroughs in 2024”. Since Pulwama and Balakot in 2019, the Narendra Modi government’s stand as regards Pakistan has been that “terror and talks cannot go together”. Now, we are no longer going to talk.’” In contrast with the Kashmir policy under Vajpayee and his successor Manmohan Singh, leaders who saw virtue in engagement and talks, the “Doval Doctrine”, by which rubric the Narendra Modi government’s Kashmir policy is known, prioritises “muscularity” and underscores non-accommodation.
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