We pose no threat: Pakistani general
One of the senior-most Pakistani generals on Friday said regional stability would remain a distant dream as long as the Kashmir issue remained unresolved.
This articulation of the centrality of Kashmir to peace and stability in the region was made by the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Khalid Shameem Wynne, while maintaining that Pakistan posed no threat to any country.
Addressing the graduation ceremony of the National Security and War Course at the National Defence University, Gen. Wynne said: “We seek nothing beyond secure frontiers and pose no threat to any country and will accept no pressure for standing up for our principles.”
Dwelling on peace and stability in the region, he added: “I must also point out that as long as the regional disputes, specially Kashmir, remains unresolved, stability will remain a distant dream, we must therefore continue for a just solution of the Kashmir dispute as it is only fair to all the people who dwell in this region.”
Keywords: General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Indo-Pak relations, bilateral ties, Kashmir issue, regional stability
India is not interested in resolving Kashmir or any other dispute with Pakistan. This was first evident at Tashkent where we tamely surrendered our superior military gains of the 1965 war without putting any contextual pressure on Pakistan. The clincher was at Shimla where we gifted to Pakistn a spectacular military victory gained by our armed forces in the 1971 war including capturing 93000 Pak PsOW when we could easily have resolved all the issues and that too on our terms. For Pakistan, it has always been a win-win situation apropos India because Nehru had directed at Partition that all of India's policies on Pakistan must favour that nation. He set the precedence by creating the Kashmir problem through his wholly unwarranted unilateral ceasefire and taking the matter to the UN just as the Pak invaders were on the run hotly chased by our army. This gave Jinnah the opportunity to consolidate his hold on what we call POK.
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