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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (168407)5/29/2002 8:16:25 AM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
News from the front...

Knockout punch okay, but West has limitations


MAHESH DAGA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2002 2:22:18 PM ]

NEW DELHI: Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh never tires of saying that India wants to de-hyphenate itself from Pakistan in its relations with the rest of the world (read the US and, by extension, the West). But the West does not seem to bite.

For long, the norm for visiting foreign dignitaries to this part of the world is to walk the diplomatic tightrope, balancing a nudge for India with a wink for Pakistan there. On the whole, keeping the sheet scrupulously balanced.

It is in this context, the statement of the British foreign secretary Jack Straw acquires significance. For once, Straw has chosen to publicly read the riot act to the general in Islamabad without in the same breath demanding countervailing sops from India.

But before claiming the equivalent of a diplomatic knockout, one should heed an important undertone of caution in Straw's pronouncements - that in the end the international community has only a limited leverage in terms of preventing a war or pressuring Islamabad to do its bidding. And that, unfortunately, is the bottomline.



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