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Manmohan Singh, Musharraf came close to striking Kashmir deal: WikiLeaks

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NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan had through "back channels" agreed to a non-territorial solution to Kashmir under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, reveals a latest WikiLeaks cable. According to the US embassy cable - dated April 21, 2009 - Singh confirmed this to a visiting US delegation, led by then House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard Berman in April, 2009, saying that the solution included free trade and movement across LoC.

Singh told the US delegation that Delhi and Islamabad had made great progress prior to February 2007, when President Musharraf ran into trouble. "We had reached an understanding in back channels," he related, says the cable, in which Musharraf had agreed to a non-territorial solution to Kashmir. Singh went on to add that India wanted a strong, stable, peaceful, democratic Pakistan and makes no claim on "even an inch" of Pakistani territory.

Singh's comments authenticate Musharraf's assertions last year that India and Pakistan had reached that stage, where they were preparing the final draft for the resolution. He had said the two sides shared drafts through "back channels", and these were in keeping with the four-point template which he had envisaged to resolve the issue. Singh, too, mentions in the cable that the two sides had arrived at the solution through back channels.

Musharraf's four points included demilitarization, maximum autonomy, making border irrelevant and joint management of the area. Later, however, Pakistani government rejected the formula, saying that it was Musharraf's personal line of thinking that lacked endorsement either by Pakistani parliament or cabinet. Singh, though, does not make any direct reference to Musharraf's template in the WikiLeak cable. Musharraf had said, unlike in the case with PM Vajpayee, it was actually with Singh that Pakistan moved towards an agreement over the issue.

Reminding Berman and other US delegates that India had lost more than 150 of its citizens in the Mumbai attacks, Singh said it would be possible to resume dialogue only if Pakistan would "behave as a civilized country and bring the perpetrators to justice". "Now, Pakistani leaders had to stick by commitments made to PM Vajpayee and repeated to PM Singh in 2005 that they would not permit attacks on India launched from Pakistani soil. If so, huge trade opportunities awaited, according to the Prime Minister, who added that a strong Indian constituency favoured normalized relations," the cable says.

Recalling the July, 2008, attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, Singh asserted that it had been carried out "with the active encouragement" of Pakistan's ISI and that he had raised the issue with President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani.
 
Musharraf, having burnt his hand in Kargil, had understood that effectively converting LoC into International Border (and thereby getting to keep P0K) was the best deal he could get short of going to war with India again and getting embarrassed once again.

Even today, that is the best deal Pakistanis can get.

But I guess Kayani is waiting to try his own Kargil and learn it the hard way...
 
Well, that's an old story now. Manmohan Singh has no clout anymore to swing any sort of a deal with Pakistan. Pakistan's best chance was with Atal Behari Vajpayee & with MMS in the first term of the UPA. The bigger the Indian economy grows, the less inclined will its leaders be for any compromise with Pakistan.
 
Well, that's an old story now. Manmohan Singh has no clout anymore to swing any sort of a deal with Pakistan. Pakistan's best chance was with Atal Behari Vajpayee & with MMS in the first term of the UPA. The bigger the Indian economy grows, the less inclined will its leaders be for any compromise with Pakistan.

I don't think it's about Indian economy growing.

It's rather about Indian economy growing and Pakistani economy, well, the lesser said the better.

It's about the growing disparity.
 
^^^^^^^^ we offer peace either they accept it or don't but make it clear that we won't tolerate the terrorism that they cause on our soil and if indeed they decide to f*** with us again like another bomb blast in our city or 26/11 then we will take action and as for the Kashmir infiltration setting up sentry guns across the LoC will take care of that
 

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