Joint Indo-Pak Anti-Terror Mechanism Failure

The concept of a joint India-Pakistan anti-terror mechanism was never going to succeed and it comes as no surprise whatsoever that the mechanism appears to be fading away.Such mechanisms can prove to be successful only if both the parties who are a part of it are honest and sincerely desirous of peace.Pakistan can never turn off the 'terror tap' till the Kashmir issue is resolved to their satisfaction.India genuinely wants to establish a peaceful relationship but as long as Pakistan continues to use terror as a state policy to weaken India, such endeavours will fail miserably.Manmohan Singh's statement describing Pakistan as a 'victim of terrorism' was a bizarre and humiliating climbdown and another addition to a long list of foreign policy gaffes this government has been responsible for.The foreign policy mandarins in the Indian external affairs ministry who thought this concept would work must have surely been out of their minds.Vigilantly aggressive diplomacy is the need of the hour because the 'terror facts on the ground' in Pakistan and PoK still remain the same.