The first woman and youngest Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrived in India on Tuesday to have talks with her Indian counterpart External Affairs Minister S M Krishna. But she committed a blunder by meeting separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Gilani and Mirwaiz Omer Farooq of Jammu and Kashmir before her official talks and meeting with Indian counterpart and other political leaders. Were separatist leaders of Jammu and Kashmir assigned duty to brief her before official level talks by the government of Pakistan? India must seek explanation from Pakistan. It has been the tradition with all the high Pakistani dignitaries to have meeting with seperatist Hurriyat leaders but after the official level engagement and not before that.
The talks between Krishna and Khar were held in cordial atmosphere and they have declared in the Joint Statement they have been positive and forward looking. Khar has declared: “New era in relationship begins”.
The ministerial level talks lasted for over half an hour but from Indian side Krishna neither expressed displeasure over her meeting with separatist leaders or India’s dismay over the revelation by FBI by arresting Ghulam Nabi Fai, a paid agent of ISI and head of Kashmiri- Americal Council in US to propgated and influence American opinons against the Indian territory (State) of Jammu and Kashmir.
By merely expressing bad idea over Khar’s meeting with separatist leaders can not serve the purpose. The tone and tenor of External Affairs Minister at the time of reading out joint statement and his body language amply reflected the lack of India’s assertion by him before his much younger counterpart of Pakistan. The language of the joint statement also clearly reflected that India and Pakistan both are under pressure of the US to keep talking. India appears to be more pressurised by the US.
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