Panun Kashmir urges rethink on Pak, Kashmir policy

Kashmiri Pandits today urged the Centre to "rethink and recast" its policies on Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, in the wake of flouting of peace engagement by Pakistani authorities over the recent arrest of a truck driver with huge quantities of narcotics.
Pakistani government has many times repudiated the peace process, and India's "proclivity not to see this" is recognised as a weakness which endangers its peace, Panun Kashmir, an organisation of the Kashmiri Pandits, said.
Panun Kashmir has no hesitation in saying that the policies of Government of India on Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir have been counterproductive, its chairman, Ajay Chrungoo told reporters today.

"The seizure of huge quantities of narcotics from a truck commissioned to carry trade items from Pakistan to India has raised serious questions about the entire character of cross-LoC trade," he said.
The detention of scores of Indian drivers by Pakistan in response to the arrest of the Pakistani driver, in whose truck brown sugar worth crores was recovered, is in fact a very eloquent repudiation of the peace process, he said.
Pakistani government has so many times in the recent past repudiated and rejected the peace process with India. Indian proclivity not to see this is not being recognised as India's commitment to peace but as its weakness to stand up to challenges which endanger peace, Chrungoo said.

Stating that the policy of the government has "undermined all popular resistance against fundamentalism, terrorism and separatism", he said it has relegated the pro-India opinion in the state as a problem area rather than a national asset.