Jealousy behind Germany's Kashmir hold against India, Pakistan's advantage

 Jealousy behind Germany's Kashmir hold against India, Pakistan's advantage

India has strongly objected to Germany's self-acquired "role and responsibility" with regard to the situation in Kashmir, publicly presented by Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock in the presence of her visiting Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari last Friday. .

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Without mentioning a word about Germany's support for Pakistan, invoking the UN role in Kashmir, jealousy of India's strategic autonomy and Islamabad's leverage on Berlin to expel loyalist Afghans from the Taliban-ruled emirate.

India has already strongly objected to Germany's self-acquired "role and responsibility with respect to the situation in Kashmir", as publicly introduced last Friday by Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock in the presence of Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was. However, the 41-year-old minister decided to ignore the violence and terror that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has faced and has suffered at the hands of Pakistan-based terror groups since the 1990s.

Our response to media queries on comments regarding Jammu and Kashmir during the recent Joint Press Conference of Foreign Ministers of Germany and Pakistan.

Berlin watchers believe that Foreign Minister Barlock's hold against India over Kashmir at a joint press conference with Pakistan's Minister Zardari was because of the German military's defenses during the US-led occupation over the past two decades. Islamabad takes over Germany to receive the serving Afghans. To move from Taliban-ruled Kabul to safer areas of Dutchland. While Afghan migrants to Germany are expected to number in the thousands, Berlin also wants Islamabad to not only screen but also ban Sunni Pashtun migrants. As Pakistan is ready to offer Germany travel channels as before, the German Foreign Minister's holy Kashmir intervention is more selfish than the larger cause of the people of the Valley. At a time when Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa in his Saturday speech ignores the word Kashmir and talks of peace, the Shahbaz Sharif government is still stuck on the word Kashmir due to vote bank politics and competing rivals.

The holy Kashmir intervention of the German Foreign Minister is more selfish than the larger objective of the people of the Valley. At a time when Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa in his Saturday speech ignores the word Kashmir and talks of peace, the Shahbaz Sharif government is still stuck on the word Kashmir due to vote bank politics and competing rivals.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock shakes hands with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari after a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany on October 7, 2022. (AFP)

Another reason for Germany's anger against the Modi government is not following the Berlin-led western line on the Ukraine war. While Germany has been at the forefront of bringing Russia to its knees militarily and economically for the invasion of Ukraine, India has a strategically autonomous position that advocates an end to hostilities on both sides. India has made its stand clear not only to the Russian President but also to the leader of Ukraine. India's stand on the Ukraine war and its compulsions was communicated to close allies the US and France, but clearly Germany wanted India to be punished for not following the West on the war in Ukraine. Quad's tough stance on China, the largest consumer of Audi and Mercedes cars, has also affected German auto-car sales and exports.

According to a former Indian foreign secretary, the German leadership is also jealous of India's growing global role as US President Joe Biden has indicated US support for India, Japan and Germany in the expanded UN Security Council. It is difficult for Germany to digest that India is being compared with a major European power.

While the German foreign minister's call for a UN role in Kashmir may have been a major diplomatic coup by Minister Zardari, the relevant resolution 47 of 1948 has been rendered fruitless and non-implementable because of the letter and spirit of its terms by Pakistan. was not followed. ,