పాక్ కవ్వింపు చర్యలు

Published : Feb 27, 2019, 7:23 AM IST

భారత వాయుసేన ఉగ్రవాద స్థావరాలపై దాడి చేసినా పాకిస్థాన్ వక్రబుద్ధి మార్చుకోవడం లేదు. కాల్పుల విరమణ ఒప్పందాన్ని ఉల్లంఘిస్తూనే ఉంది.

జమ్ముకశ్మీర్ సరిహద్దు నియంత్రణ రేఖ వద్ద కవ్వింపు చర్యలకు పాల్పడుతోంది పాకిస్థాన్ సైన్యం. పదేపదే కాల్పుల విరమణ ఒప్పందాన్ని ఉల్లఘింస్తోంది. మంగళవారం ఒక్కరోజే దాదాపు 15 చోట్ల కాల్పులకు తెగబడింది.

భారత బలగాలపై ఫిరంగి గుండ్లను విసిరింది పాక్ సైన్యం. ఘటనలోఐదుగురు భారత సైనికులు గాయపడ్డారు. రెండు ఇళ్లు ధ్వంసమయ్యాయి. భారత బలగాలు పాకిస్థాన్ సైన్యానికి దీటుగా బదులిచ్చాయి.

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Washington - 26 February 2019
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1. Wide, hearing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Richardson, former US Abmassador to the United Nations:
"I want the president to succeed.  You know, this is probably our most dominant national security threat that we have. But, I don't think that the threat is diminished."
3. Wide, hearing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Gerry Connolly, Democrat - Virginia:
"One of the concerns some people have is that North Korea is about to get us into a trap, so that we sign an agreement ending the war after 66 years but in doing that, which is a laudable goal, we undermine the rationale for a U.S. troop tripwire presence in South Korea?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Cha, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair:
"And I think there is some concern among experts that in trying to get bigger steps on denuclearization we might put bigger chips on the table. As I said in my testimony, I think there should be a bright red line between things that we do on sanctions versus things that we do with our alliances. Sanctions, liaison offices some of the things that Governor Richardson mentioned they may be part of the bargain but we should not be trading away alliance equities."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Richardson, former US Abmassador to the United Nations:
"I would not trade an end to the (Korean) war treaty for ... unless there is a denuclearization of sizable numbers of dismantling of weapons and WMD and ... I would not.  Perhaps of a vaguer statement that says tensions are less and the war is over, OK? Maybe but not as a trade off unless there is substantial denuclearization and I'm concerned, there've been some reports that we're considering that."
7. Wide, hearing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Richardson, former US Abmassador to the United Nations:
"The U.S. South Korea relationship is very important, but if anything I would say to this administration, for instance, they are obsessed with having South Korea pay more for the military relationship that we have. Yeah, we do want to save money but the U.S. military relationship with South Korea is in our interests too. And sometimes I'll say the president says 'well they should pay more,' all right? And South Korea is paying a little more. But that is a very valuable military relationship for us, not just because of not just because of North Korea but because of China and the region. Secondly with Japan, we should be more conscious of Japan's needs in this security relationship with North Korea. Yes, the president and the prime minister of Japan have a very good personal relationship but somehow the Japanese government, and you can get a briefing, on this feels that they've been left out of this negotiation. Yes. China, again that's a very complicated relationship we have with China, and we absolutely need them to keep enforcing sanctions or the pressure on North Korea will deteriorate. Now there are some very good, as I mentioned, family relationship, more investments between north and south. I think all of that is good. Less tension."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Scott Perry, Republican - Pennsylvania:
"Is the fact that they're not launching missiles out into the ocean and over Japan and continuing with nuclear tests for the last essentially the greater part of the last two years, is that...can that be viewed as a concession or not?"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Cha, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair:
"It's certainly an important nonevent. Yes, 15 months of no testing of any sort is good for the diplomatic climate and also makes it harder for them to develop their programs."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Cha, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair:
"The key word is is verify but verifiability. Whatever the North Koreans give up whether it's a couple of sites or whether it's a promise not to produce more more fissile material, it has to be verifiable. Right? And and so they did decommission some sites after the Singapore summit as Congressman Yoho said but they didn't allow anybody to verify it. So that's really the key piece to me is to see whatever they put on the table how small or how large, it has to be verifiable."
13. Wide
STORYLINE:
On the eve of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, experts in Washington warned that the threat hasn't lessened since the first Singapore summit.
Bill Richardson, the former US Abmassador to the United Nations, testified before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Tuesday that he wanted "the president to succeed, " because "this is probably our most dominant national security threat that we have. "
After long journeys to Vietnam, both Trump and Kim are now in place for their second summit to address perhaps the world's biggest security challenge: Kim's pursuit of a nuclear program that stands on the verge of realistically threatening targets around the planet.
Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly raised the potential of a negotiation in Hanoi that would end the 66 year old Korean War.
Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair, Dr Victor Cha, told the hearing that there was concern that the Trump administration might "put bigger chips on the table,"  including a declaration to end the war in effort to reach some agreement with North Korea.
Richardson said he would not trade an end to the Korean War, "unless there is a denuclearization of sizable numbers of dismantling of weapons and WMD."
The two leaders are to meet over two days, first at dinner on Wednesday followed by meetings on Thursday.
They first met last June in Singapore, a summit that was long on historic pageantry but short on any enforceable agreements for North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.
North Korea has spent decades, at great economic sacrifice, building its nuclear program, and there is widespread skepticism among experts that it will give away that program cheaply.
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