DURING a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan at Davos, US President Donald Trump once again reiterated the offer to help Pakistan and India for the resolution of decades-old Kashmir dispute. Whilst one really appreciates the very gesture of the US President for repeatedly talking about this bone of contention between two nuclear armed countries but the fact of the matter is that these statements are not providing any relief to the oppressed Kashmiri people who have been put under siege ever since 5th August last year.
The truth is that India has unleashed a wave of terror and tyranny against innocent Kashmiri people. They have been confined to their homes as well as cut off from the rest of the world with the blockade of their communication means. This warrants serious and concrete action on the part of the United States which claims to be the true champions of human rights. The question arises had a territory illegally been occupied by some Muslim country against the wishes and aspirations of the local people, whether the US would have only resorted to mere statements or gone beyond and taken punitive action to liberate those people. Everybody knows its answer very well. We are not asking the US to attack India but at least use its influence firstly to lift the curbs in the occupied Kashmir and then for the resolution of the dispute for durable peace and stability in the region. And Mr. Trump is the person who really can do it and restrain Modi junta from its ongoing fascist and racist agenda. As regards bilateral relations, Donald Trump said that the US has never been as close to Pakistan as it is right now. Indeed the meetings between both PM Khan and President Trump had remained very pleasant in which both sides expressed the willingness to expand their trade and economic relations. Both the sides need to engage more deeply at different levels to translate that vision into reality. Greater economic and trade relations indeed will go a long way in building the requisite trust and strong partnership which is a win-win for the peoples of both the countries.
