Dangerous Delusions

[Guest guest]

What should we do then? Well, we may as well stop hoping that America is going

to help us by persuading Pervez Musharraf to become more broadminded in his

approach to dialogue. We need to also give up the illusion that America's war

against terrorism includes our own fight against it. Our fight is one that we

will have to continue fighting alone. But while doing this we need to remember

that there is a political dimension to our Kashmir problem and that it has been

almost forgotten in all this talk of terrorism. We must start dealing with it

urgently now. It is time Atal Bihari Vajpayee woke up to the reality that

putting K.C. Pant in charge of talking to militant groups in Kashmir does not

constitute a policy. In any case, choosing someone like Pant makes the idea of

dialogue seem non-serious. We must then get on with reforming the Indian

economy at top speed. We must muster the political will to ensure that India

becomes at least as developed as Thailand in the next 10 years. If the Indian

economy booms, Pakistan's ability to continue being a terrorist thorn in our

side automatically diminishes. When we talk of speeding up economic reforms

these days, the finance minister gives us the glib answer that he has done what

he could and it is now for the states to do their bit. This is not good enough

and not entirely true. Meanwhile, let us forget about the "evil axis" between

America and Pakistan since we can do nothing about it.

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