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NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 16 Rs. 7.00 24 February - 1 March 2020 Vol - 30 No. 4 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Hafiz Saeed’s Uprising in Canada. conviction: Is Who’s responsible? Canada and its economy are being held Pakistan sincere? hostage by segments of our First Nations On February 12, a Pakistan court gave the who justifiably feel slighted by what they verdict against Jamaat-ud-Dawa supremo, claim is a lack of respect over centuries that Hafiz Saeed on the terror financing cases. today has crystalized into the blockades of This is a major development as Pakistan is our rail networks. being forced by the FATF to dismantle the Ostensibly the blockades are in solidarity active militant infrastructure. Saeed remained with First Nations directly impacted by the the driving force behind Lashkar-e-Taiba... Coastal GasLink pipeline... 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Guterres knows well that until and unless @NewDelhiTimes of the territories illegally and forcibly the pre-conditions of the UN resolutions occupied by Pakistan.” Kumar continued, Guterres said, “We have taken position about the are followed rest of the agreements on those [email protected] “Further issues, if any, would be discussed need for Security Council’s resolutions to resolutions have no value. India has said bilaterally. There is no role or scope for be implemented for effective de-escalation many times about mediation before. n February 16, on a tour to Pakistan, while third party mediation.” He hoped that “without clarifying who this “We” referred O speaking at a joint press conference in Gutteres will “emphasise on the imperative to”.” He talked of respect for human rights Islamabad with Pakistan Foreign Minister Pakistan is on a sponsoring spree-first for Pakistan to take credible, sustained and and “continental freedom in Jammu & Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the United Nations Erdogan and now Guterres-inviting to irreversible action to put an end to cross- Kashmir” and free movement of people Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered Islamabad and extracting quotes of choice. border terrorism against India”. in Indian side as it has in Pakistan’s side. mediation on the Kashmir issue, calling for The dignitaries should avoid being mules Guterres also asked for free access to the available on hire. If Pakistan continues in resolution to the dispute by honouring the Guterres is blissfully unaware that Pakistan UN Military Observers Group in India and UN Security Council resolutions. is continuing a “proxy war” against India by this manner and does not mend its ways, the Pakistan (UNMOGIP). He was “deeply Indus Water Treaty 1961 could be next on concerned” and repeatedly stressed “the line. importance of exercising maximum restraint” along the Line of Control. The UN is a world body which represents the international community and should behave India’s objection was firm, crisp, loud and rationally rather than being one-sided. clear on Kashmir. The UN Chief has limited Its creditability can’t be ensured when its understanding of Kashmir and should focus leader is so hair-brained to keep the largest on Pakistan. The sooner he understands the democracy out from the decision. The UN better. Nobody, not even the UN Chief, can must get to ground realities and hear India separate Kashmir from India. What is there as well. Otherwise its authority, at least to mediate about? The UN resolution states whatever is still left out, will erode further. that it is Pakistan which has to pull its troops Nowadays, it struggles to collect annual first from Kashmir. Photo Credit : Getty Images subscriptions. India has been assiduously Guterres also offered his role as a mediator “backing militants” in Kashmir killing tens Guterres should have better stayed neutral paying its dues much ahead of times. saying his “good offices” could be used for of thousands of people in recent decades. and avoided partisan politics which has this purpose. On India-Pakistan relations, Pakistan is the epicentre of world terror but already eroded his credibility. Making loose Pakistan can’t just go to every country/ he stressed the need for de-escalation-both repeatedly denies the charge. statements to please people he visits on organization begging for Kashmir. Back in militarily as well as verbally. issues of international ramifications is naive. 1947, it snatched half of Kashmir through There have been offers in the past for The UN Chief has no power and mandate military deception and brute force and now Late in the evening, the same day, India mediation on the Kashmir dispute. In July to advise any member country. That power harbours evil intentions to snatch the rest promptly rejected his offer for mediation 2019, US President Donald Trump had rests only with the UNSC. through diplomatic deception. Pakistan won’t saying that “there is no role or scope for third expressed his willingness to mediate and get Kashmir. Excluding India from the UN party mediation”. The Ministry of External repeated the offer. Two days before Guterres’ Pakistan has been feeding visiting dignitaries could hinder multilateralism and it will not Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar offer, Pakistan extracted a statement from with lots of rhetoric for decades. It is Guterres’ bode well for international world order. Uprising in Canada. Who’s responsible? by these make-believe proletariats, play- ◆ By Tarek Fatah Author & Columnist, Canada acting the Bolshevik Revolution at CP rail intersections. These wannabe revolutionaries @TarekFatah have aligned themselves with five Wet’suwet’en [email protected] hereditary chiefs opposed to the pipeline, and not the 13,000 Indigenous British anada and its economy are being held Columbians represented by all the band C hostage by segments of our First councils that support it. Nations who justifiably feel slighted by what they claim is a lack of respect over centuries If the logic of our revolutionary activists that today has crystalized into the blockades was taken to its logical extreme, would these of our rail networks. protestors want Canada’s own ‘hereditary Ostensibly the blockades are in solidarity chiefs’, represented by the Queen, to with First Nations directly impacted by overrule the agreements signed by Ottawa the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British and voted on by the Canadian Parliament? Columbia. However, the inconvenient One would have expected Canada’s Photo Credit : Getty Images fact is that all 20 First Nations along the professional protestors to have sided with not going to talk with a gun pointed to our First Nations have kept everyone apart. pipeline route have signed agreements with the elected leaders of the Wet’suwet’en first heads.” Break down the walls to put an end to the the pipeline company through their elected nation. But they did not. Instead they back Oka standoff as well as the Wet’suwet’en band councils and thousands of Indigenous the unelected self-appointed Hereditary The essence one gathered from his remarks crisis. people support the project. Chiefs. On Monday Canadians got a was that he had nothing against the merits of As a start, let our Aboriginal and Indigenous chance to hear one such chief on CBC TV, the pipeline but felt insulted and humiliated One can understand the rift between members brothers and sisters own their own land and Hereditary Chief Frank Alec Woos of the that the elected Band Council members were of our First Nations – some who back their homes on reserves, while retaining all the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, as he reluctantly consulted, but not unelected chiefs. elected leaders versus those who follow the rights they have as First Nations. Putting engaged in a conversation with CBC host un-elected hereditary chiefs. But what about The larger question that has gone First Nations in Communist-style collectives Vassy Kapelos. the non-aboriginal protesters, aptly labelled unaddressed since the Indian Act of 1876 while the rest of us enjoy the benefits of by Conservative leader Andrew Scheer as and the 1948 UN Declaration of Universal Asked if he had had any talks with Ottawa building wealth and equity in our homes is “radical activists,” many of whom have no Human Rights is this: For how long will or the provincial NDP government of a travesty.