New Delhi, September 7
India would be changing diplomatic gears during Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s forthcoming visit to the UN and according to indications available here Mr Vajpayee and his team would focus on the alleged “helplessness” of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in putting a complete stop to cross-border infiltration.
This subtle change in diplomatic offensive with the international
community against Pakistan tactics is primarily aimed at two objectives.
First, to expose Pakistan’s playacting that it cannot help if a small number of terrorists still managed to cross over the Line of Control (LoC) because the Pakistani Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are so powerful that no militant outfit can dare to flout their orders.
Secondly, India’s “mantra” would be to ask the world community to counsel Pakistan to cooperate with India in curbing cross-border infiltration if Pakistan is facing genuine difficulties in doing so on its own.
Sources disclosed that one thing was quite certain that New Delhi was not going to review its rejection of a multinational force to guard the 740-km-long LoC, a proposal which India expected to figure in one or the other way during Mr Vajpayee’s coming visit to the UN.
