Cut the Gordian knot

Sir, - The Chief Executive of Pakistan is really forthcoming in condemning the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane but whether Islamabad is not encouraging militancy in the Kashmir Valley is a moot point. He cannot establish his credibility by simply condemning the hijacking. It appears that successive Governments in Pakistan have wielded only the surgeon's scalpel while targeting the Kashmir militants but never failed to use the sledgehammer against the Indian Army operating in the troubled State. Any convention will be useless if one party does not respect it and he who knows only his side of the case knows nothing.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf must know that India has the most number of Muslims after Indonesia, while Pakistan ranks seventh in the world. Muslims in India desire absolute peace in the subcontinent and the ruler of Pakistan must cut the Gordian knot to herald a new era in the relations between the two countries. Hostilities during the Kargil conflict were instantly stopped at the instance of the Pakistan army; at the present juncture, the same directive should be given to the militant outfits fighting in the Valley so that India can believe in the sincerity of Pakistan.

H. Syed Mathani,

Tiruchi

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