National/Regional/International Affairs
By N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal)
Kathmandu: A famous Latin saying goes: Cjus region ejus religio. Its literal translation is: “The religion prevails whose rule exists”.
The Latin saying fits into Nepali politics as if it were made only for Nepal.
This means that the country’s politics and religion are best determined by the attitude and the behavioral pattern of the one who is seated in the “power corridor”.
Its logical extension or for that matter the expansion would be somewhat like this:
The Country will run as per the whims of the fanatic ruler(s).
If so then let’s presume that “we the people” of this country are being ruled by fanatics who under the cover of politics have been looting the nation mercilessly since the very calculated and designed ouster of the two-and-a-half-century-old institution of the monarchy. Needless to say, India was the designer.
Needless to say, any political chaos of upheaval in this part of the world is being best carried out by regional bully-obviously India and thus the Nepali monarchy too became the well-planned and targeted victim of the RAW machination plus the South Block that charts the “fate” of India’s bordering countries.
To cut it short, the alien declared the recognized inimical force(s) which ousted the Nepali monarchy in ‘understood collaboration’ with the domestic posted and paid agents of the Indian spy agency — the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) moulded the politics as the Latin saying goes stated in the earlier paragraphs.
Thus Nepal is being ruled by the Indian authorities/Babu Sahebs, however, for public consumption in Nepal, some Nepali faces with distinct Indian tilt have been deputed to control Nepal which ever remained an independent and sovereign country on the world map.
Though Nepal is still a sovereign and independent nation, the de facto ruler is outside the Nepali territory.
Let’s not waste our precious time and energy talking about the politics of a country that has already become the tail of the regional scoundrel — India –recognized as the number one expansionist country in the globe which controls Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Thanks, Pakistan is the lone country which competes and rebuffs the hegemonic behavior of its born rival India.
The issue of Kashmir and the German bombshell:
The German Foreign Minister has set the political ball rolling. It was almost a high-sounding blast that almost shook Delhi’s power corridors.
Better late than never, German Minister Annalena Baerbock on October 7 made in Berlin a special reference to India Occupied Jammu and Kashmir wherein she stated, “Germany supports the U. N. role in resolving the Kashmir dispute, and praised the LoC (Line of Control) cease fire agreement of February 2021, and also called for a “political” dialogue between India and Pakistan”.
German FM’s remarks made in Berlin must have come to India as a bolt from the blue as India takes Germany as its darling and had hoped that this country shall never go against Indian stances on international issues such as that of Kashmir’s disputed territory.
Indian irritation must have taken a new height as Annalena has mentioned the role of the UN and also talked of “political dialogue” between the two nations who claim their sovereign rights over Kashmir.
The use of the word “dispute” by the minister from Germany appears to have irritated India to the hilt in that the Kashmir issue, as India takes it for granted, is not an issue of dispute at all.
For India and Indians, Kashmir entirely belonged to India and that the part or for that matter the portion of Kashmir which falls in the territory of Pakistan too is a forcibly occupied landmass by rival Pakistan.
What must have pained the Indian establishment, let’s presume with whatever experience we have collected, so far, that the German Foreign Minister spoke all these in front of the Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto and that too at a joint press conference held in Berlin.
This must have been too much for the “deputed” policeman of South Asia. This was not all.
More to come:
FM Annalena told straight that her country, Germany has a role and responsibility concerning the situation of Kashmir. Therefore, we support intensively the engagement of the United Nations to find peaceful solutions in the region”.
To add fuel to the fire, the German statement on Kashmir came immediately after the Germany-Pakistan bilateral talks wherein she without a chewing word said, “Germany has a role as well a responsibility” apparently hinting at the resolution of the Kashmir dispute in an amicable manner. Does she hint that Germany is ready for mediation?
In her statement what is also to be carefully noted is that Germany too deems the role of the United Nations necessary.
In saying so she must have hinted to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guetteras to implement the Security Council resolutions made over the past decades for the early resolutions of the overly stretched Kashmir dispute.
For reasons unknown to the intellectuals across the globe, why the UNSC resolutions made in the past have never been brought into execution is what has been puzzling the minds of the literati in the world which, as a net result, then allows the men of letter across the world to “suspect” the very motive of the UN international body.
So far as I recall, a couple of UNSC resolutions were made for resolving the Kashmir dispute once and for all during the time of Indian Prime Minister Pundit, however, the dilly-dallying practices of Nehru himself and his successors allowed “playing space” to the UN body which in turn allowed others to “accuse” that the UNSC body was controlled by India in many more ways than one.
Or else, the UNSC has made a resolution holding a plebiscite.
The UN may not have any design, let’s guess, to alter its own previous resolutions, however, the disinclination of the UN body itself in sorting out the Kashmir issue for good does tell so many things unspoken.
But this time the German Foreign Minister’s straight call for early resolution is something which the UN body can’t hush-hush the matter as it did in the past.
By the way, Pakistan too has come of age and the UN Body too can’t summarily keep the Kashmir issue under the carpet.
The Berlin-Islamabad bilateral talks and the emergence of the official statement in the German capital mean something for the UN body which can’t and shouldn’t be ignored for long.
Looking from the South Asian spectrum, what is guaranteed is that the two rival nations in South Asia have fought several wars for Kashmir and yet Kashmir remains a flashpoint which may time and again bring the two hostile nations, India and Pakistan to the war fronts.
The US too explodes on Kashmir:
In fact, two political bombshells of high magnitude shook the South Block earth in recent days.
US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome
In a rare gesture, the US Ambassador based in Islamabad, Pakistan, headed towards the disputed area of Kashmir.
New Delhi’s eardrum must have flattened when it heard the US Ambassador Donald Blome saying from the land of what the Ambassador mentioned Pakistan administered “Azad Kashmir” many times more so he referred to the region as AJK — a word that is anathema to the Indian establishment.
As far as this scribe recalls, Ambassador Blome’s visit to Azad Kashmir could be the first ever one from the sitting envoy of the US and that too based in Islamabad to have entered into the Pakistan-administered territory of Kashmir thus allowing “political commentators” to guess that the US policy on Pakistan after the ouster of Imran Khan has not only improved but attained a new height that has stunned New Delhi’s hawks.
The sudden visit of the US envoy Donald Blome to Muzaffarabad has come at a crucial time when India for various known and unknown political reasons is pretty annoyed with Washington when the latter approved an F-16 aid package to rival Pakistan in the name of “countering” terrorism.
In a way, the US aid package meant for Pakistan could be taken as a grand departure from the US policy acquired on Pakistan in recent years more so when Imran Khan was the Prime Minister.
Some rumors even had it that one American minister, Donald Lu remained instrumental in dismantling IK’s regime through the express orders of the Apex court of Pakistan.
Since then Imran Khan believes that he was ousted from the chair through a grand design which comprised the US and domestic political forces that were “close” to the US administration.
However, whatever may have been the case internal to Pakistan, the US’s fresh “political logical slant” towards Pakistan bodes not only well for Pakistan but entire South Asia’s regional stability.
Moreover, the US envoy Donald Blome’s sudden visit to Muzaffarabad does also tell that not only Pakistan but the Kashmir dispute also, better late than never, is now in the penetrating eyes of the US administration.
To recall, Minister Donald Lu had stated that Imran Khan’s exit from the government will only improve its somewhat “cold” ties with Islamabad.
The US appears to have kept its promise if Donald Lu correctly said this to the Pakistani envoy. Assad Mazeed in Washington in one of his meetings in April this year.
This does mean that PM Khan’s visit to the Russian Federation in February third week of this year was almost a Khan’s crime.
The fact is that the Russian visit, we are told, had been finalized much ahead of his trip to Moscow and that PM Khan had no inkling of the happening of the Russian attack on sovereign Ukraine.
These are matters internal to Pakistan so let’s not poke our noses.
What is more than pleasing is that along with Germany, a very powerful country in Europe and a distinguished member of the European Union, the US is also on board in sorting out the overly stretched issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
We recall, the first highest dignitary from the US to have visited Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was the US Congresswoman representing Minnesota, Ms. Ilhan Omar and now the sitting Ambassador from the US visits the same place and apparently annoys Delhi’s hawks who take Washington as their private property to which it is not.
Neither Berlin nor Washington belongs to Delhi as these world capitals decide and look into the matters seriously on their own.
Delhi’s dictates have no place either in Berlin or in Washington.
In sum, all these events in the series that have happened in Berlin or Muzaffarabad give abundant clues that “all is not well” between Delhi and Washington.
Knowledgeable people across the globe opine that it is the “obduracy” and the excessive “arrogance” of the Indian Minister S. Shankar that more often than not irritates the US administration officials.
Minister Shankar’s son is an American citizen and his wife is Japanese thus he himself two-thirds of the US-designed security apparatus, the QUAD that includes India obviously.
Shankar at times even brings into use some rough and tough words while discussing Delhi-Washington bilateral talks which must have irked the US authorities.
In addition, his “double play” on matters of the Ukraine crisis, dealings with Russia and visible variations in utterances on some key international issues may have irked the US for sure.
India’s “intense love” with the Russian Federation and PM Modi’s “telephonic talks” with Ukrainian President Zelensky too must have its role in deteriorating US-India ties.
India is riding three boats at a time.
In sum, India’s double play in political matters in which the US needs at least some moral support from India is “missing” which too could have been one of the main political reasons that may have distanced the US from India of late more so after the unceremonious exit of PM Imran Khan.
Or some sane minds in the US administration may have pointed out to President Joe Biden the disparity and the visible unequal dealings of the US in South Asia wherein the US got itself glued to the Indian regime ignoring the country, Pakistan obviously, which emboldened Delhi at the cost of Islamabad.
The fact is that since the ‘center of political gravity’ has now shifted to Asia more so to South Asia, the American’s sudden change in its India-slanted policy on South Asia bodes well in that the changed US policy takes care of Pakistan as well and needless to say, Pakistan is not only the competing, fitting and matching rival of the expansionist Indian regime but Pakistan is a nuclear country also able to keep a “perfect balance” in South Asia thus avoiding the threat of regional stability because of Kashmir dispute.
The grand departure and the deterioration in the Delhi-Washington ties apparently took a nose dive when at the end of this September 27, Ned Price, the official spokesperson of the US, bluntly said, “Well, we don’t view our relationship with Pakistan, and on the other hand we don’t view our relationship with India as in relation to one another”.
This was not all.
“These are both partners of ours with different points of emphasis in each, and we look to both as partners because we do have in many cases shared values, we do have in many cases shared interests,” Ned Price said in response to a question on the Indian foreign minister’s criticism of USD 450 million sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet.
This speaks to many things unspoken. The gist is “all is not well in New Delhi-Washington ties”.
India’s foreign ministers’ Pakistan’s jealousy not only stands exposed but to a greater extent has also damaged US-India ties.
This damage in the Delhi–Washington ties benefitted not only Pakistan but awarded a chance for a “balanced peace” in the South Asian region that had been excessively influenced and controlled by India’s expansionist regime under Islamophobic Indian Prime Minister Modi.
For the Road: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Ukrainian administration of orchestrating a terrorist attack on a key bridge that linked Russia and Crimea.
Putin further said on October 9, “There is no doubt. This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure”.
“This was devised, carried out and ordered by the Ukrainian special services. Putin stressed. That’s all.
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