Delivers lessons on dialogue, diplomacy and spirit to work together
JK News Today Commentary
Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Wednesday told US President Donald Trump in clearest terms that the May 10th Indo-Pak ceasefire at the request of Islamabad, and there was no trade or other issues involved.
This was more than the assertion of the eternally stated Indian position that it doesn’t want any mediation in any matter howsoever grave it might be. It also called bluff of the US President who had been floating his tag of a peacemaker and spotlighting his self-proclaimed role as a mediator between India and Pakistan ceasefire and pushing the envelope for mediating on Kashmir between the two nuclear armed countries in South Asia.
Two promising features have been invoked in this monumentally significant conversation between the two world leaders : One , it sets the record straight on the May 10th ceasefire in proper perspective in Indo-Pak relations Jammu and Kashmir, and it envisions a future where India will lead the world by his mantra “ Global Progress Together”
President Trump had created all the chaos and confusion, to say the least, by his tweet that the US had brokered “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan- the two countries engaged in high intensity military confrontation threatening to escalate further. The backdrop of Operation Sindoor, targeting the terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir, was known to him. So was the Pakistan’s retaliatory strike in defense of its terrorist networks, after the Indian strikes left devastation in the terror camps .Trump, in a sense, resorted to distorting the real cause and effect. It was an artificial situation that he boosted in his post.
With Prime Minister Modi having told the US President that what the facts were, it should be hoped that Trump would cease his claim of “mediation.” In a very sophisticated diplomatic language Trump was told that his phrases of “mediation” and can settle everything have become ad nauseam for the Indian audience, and perhaps for the rest of the world, too.
It should also be a lesson for Pakistan, the country that had been crediting others for what in reality was the Indian magnanimity in accepting its request for ceasefire made after the latter suffered incalculable losses at its military airbases.
Though , there were very few in Jammu and Kashmir who loved to hear word “ mediation”, as the vast majority knew that India had made a significant point against terrorism worldwide , Wednesday’s statement of facts on ceasefire , should serve as an eye opener for them- no one can ever pressurize India on any issue .
Equally important is the message that Prime Minister has delivered to the world that working together is the real mantra for the global progress. This has two parts: one that the ongoing wars between Israel- Iran, a larger manifestation of the earlier wars against Hamas in retaliation to October 7, 2023 terror attack and extremist groups in Lebanon and elsewhere ; more than three-year-old Ukraine- Russia conflict and other conflicts raging in Yemen, Syria , must end through dialogue and diplomacy . Second that present world disorder cannot be restored to order until there is a wish and will to work together… This again was a message for President Trump that peace making needs to take all along , not dictate terms to the others on trade and tariffs or demanding a particular behaviour from other nations .
