From RCR to Rawalpindi

By on April 24, 2011 in Uncategorized

Did they? Or didn’t they? And does it really matter?

As per media reports, this is what The Times reported about the Indian PM, Dr Manmohan Singh establishing unofficial direct contact with the Pakistan Army Chief, General Kayani.

The Times reported, “‘The Prime Minister of India has opened secret talks with the head of Pakistan’s military to build on the cricket-inspired diplomatic thaw between the rivals.

“Manmohan Singh appointed an unofficial envoy to make contact with Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan’s chief of the army staff who exercises de facto control over foreign policy, about 10 months ago.”[HT]

And here is what the PM’s Media Adviser has denied:

“We have seen media reports quoting a British newspaper saying that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh contacted Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani before the Mohali meeting between the two Prime Ministers. The report is false,” PM’s media adviser Harish Khare said in a statement.[ToI]

Read the two statements again — The Times report and the PMO’s denial. Now, let us move on an even more interesting reaction from the Pakistan Army’s official spokesperson.

Asked to comment on the media report by a group of Indian journalists visiting the country on the invitation of the Pakistan Government, the Director-General of Inter Services Public Relations Athar Abbas said on Saturday: “I decline to comment.” To a specific question whether he was denying the veracity of the report, Maj. Gen. Abbas repeated: “I decline to comment.”[The Hindu]

Intelligent readers of the blog are encouraged to draw their own conclusions from the above.

Around the same time this “unofficial envoy” is supposed to have been appointed by the Prime Minister, this blog had clearly stated (here) : “It doesn’t matter whether India talks directly to GHQ in Pakistan or not; because India doesn’t have the capacity to make the other side listen.” That is the crux of the matter.

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8 Responses to From RCR to Rawalpindi

  1. Sangh Parivaar (@SanghParivaar) (@SanghParivaar) (@SanghParivaar) April 24, 2011 at 4:27 pm #

    Linking Race Course Road to Rawalpindi: Did they? Or didn’t they?And does it really matter?
    As per media reports… http://bit.ly/h3ixCh

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  2. pragmatic_desi (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) April 24, 2011 at 4:29 pm #

    At my blog, From RCR to Rawalpindi: Did they? Or didn’t they? And does it really matter? http://bit.ly/gqxtlO

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  3. Seshan A (@SeshanA) (@SeshanA) April 24, 2011 at 4:31 pm #

    From RCR to Rawalpindi http://t.co/65LC7xW

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  4. Sourav Mukherjee (@tweetingsourav) April 24, 2011 at 4:51 pm #

    here RCR not= OB van! RT @pragmatic_d: At my blog,4m RCR to Rawalpindi:Did they?Or didn’t they?& does it really matter? http://bit.ly/gqxtlO

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  5. pragmatic_desi (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) (@pragmatic_d) April 25, 2011 at 1:24 am #

    @d_jaishankar Dhruva, And why CUB may not be fully right on this. My short post from yesterday: http://bit.ly/gqxtlO

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  6. Varun Mahajan (@varunm) (@varunm) April 25, 2011 at 3:23 am #

    From RCR to Rawalpindi http://t.co/kR4IbCr

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  7. Rohan Joshi (@filter_c) (@filter_c) April 25, 2011 at 3:25 am #

    Two top posts by @pragmatic_d and @acorn on the so-called direct channel between Delhi & Pindi. http://bit.ly/gqxtlO, http://t.co/MUec5GS

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  8. .. April 25, 2011 at 5:27 am #

    There is actual contractor who remove the h.s. from RCr augeans post races
    As like contractor ( M/s Lucky Traders ) at punjabi bagh cremation grounds

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