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National Security Doctrine for Global Reach continues...
Let us both therefore not be prisoners of history. We need therefore, to continue and deepen our strategic dialogue with China, and remove misunderstanding on Tibet, Taiwan, Kashmir and the border, and make explicit the stand of the two ancient neighbour nations on contingencies arising out of Indo-US and Sino-Pakistan relations. Flexibility is the buzz word for China relations.
However, such flexibility is not always tenable from our national security perspective. Kashmir is the underpinning of our secular society. The UN Resolutions on Plebiscite- which was the personal folly of Pandit Nehru—or the Simla Agreement—which was the short sightedness of Mrs. Indira Gandhi,—are anyway infructuous now.
But before we can act effectively on the world stage, we must deal first and foremost with our internal security crisis. Let us recognise that due to past follies, today Kashmir is on fire. And yet hardly anyone is paying serious attention to the grave consequences for the Indian nation arising out of the situation obtaining there. Without exaggeration it can be said that Kashmir is the agni pariksha of the hoary concept of Indian nationhood: Kashmir stays, India survives; Kashmir secedes, India will recede. Kashmir is the negation of the vicious communal propaganda that Muslims anywhere in India will sooner or later demand another Pakistan. If Kashmir goes we shall not be able to face the onslaught of the terrorist forces elsewhere in India. India would be doomed then.
At a point of time in history, when the Soviet Union has disintegrated, Yugoslavia is in pieces, Indonesia partitioned, and Sri Lanka is in ethnic chaos, can any patriotic Indian be oblivious to the sinister developments in Kashmir and its long run consequences? The time has arrived for us to take stock. The time is now that we must devise a complete and lasting remedy to Bharat Mata’s bleeding head wound that the Kashmir problem represents.
to be continued...
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