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June 3, 2002
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June 1, 2002
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May 31, 2002
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June 3, 2002
Indian,
Pakistan and Nuclear War
A Road Map to Peace
by Admiral L. Ramdas
and Arjun Makhijani
India and Pakistan stand at the brink of nuclear
catastrophe. Many people from all over the world including
businessmen, politicians, strategic analysts, diplomats, scientists,
peace activists and common people above all have all voiced
their concern regarding the rapidly deteriorating situation
in South Asia. Infiltration of terrorists from across the Pakistani
side of the Line of Control, the massing of troops at the border
by both countries, and the increasing exchanges of artillery
fire matched only by the verbal volleys exchanged between the
leadership of both countries, could escalate quickly into a
full-scale war.
This, in turn poses the threat of a nuclear
exchange, which would be catastrophic for both the countries,
South Asia in particular, and affect the world at large.
India and Pakistan signed the Shimla
Agreement in 1972 and the Lahore Agreement in 1999.
In both these accords, they agreed to
renounce the use of force and to resolve all outstanding issues
between them by peaceful means.
There has never been a time more urgent
and more important to respect the letter and spirit of those
agreements than now.
We urge the governments of both Pakistan
and India to immediately step back from the brink of war and
nuclear holocaust by committing themselves to the following
seven-point peace plan. We urge all those Governments that
endorsed the U. N. resolutions against terrorism in the wake
of September 11, 2001, to use their good offices with the Governments
of India and Pakistan to accept this peace plan and to help
put it into effect with the greatest urgency. The proposed plan:
1) There should be an immediate ceasefire
by Indian and Pakistani forces along the LoC.
2) Pervez Musharraf should take immediate,
firm, and demonstrable steps to stop cross-border infiltration
from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir into the Indian-controlled
side. To ensure that these steps are being taken, an International
Anti-terrorist Monitoring Group should be formed and deployed.
Pakistan and India should agree to full cooperation with this
group.
This would provide a neutral means of
ensuring that Pakistan's commitments about stopping cross-border
infiltration are being carried out.
3) If these measures are agreed to, India
in turn should make a commitment not to cross the LoC.
4) Pakistan should also adopt the no-first-use
policy of nuclear weapons, which has already been adopted by
India. These measures should be urgently instituted within a
time-frame of a few weeks. Thereafter, three further steps
can be taken to ensure long-term peace and towards resolution
of a crisis that has now lasted well over half a century. These
three steps are:
1) India and Pakistan should thin down
their military deployments along their common border and return
to pre-December 13, 2001, levels.
2) India and Pakistan should resume their
dialogue on all outstanding issues, including Jammu and Kashmir,
in the spirit of the Shimla and Lahore agreements, and pick
up the threads where they left off at Agra barely ten months
ago.
3) As a part of the dialogue process,
India and Pakistan should form a joint technical commission
to explore and recommend how the mutual commitment to no-first-use
of nuclear weapons can be verified and maintained.
4) Why not a Shimla-II? It would be truly
fitting if this could take place on July 12, 2002, the thirtieth
anniversary of the historic Shimla agreement.
Admiral L. Ramdas is the former Chief of India's Naval Staff and
Arjun Makhijani is president of Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research, Maryland, U.S.
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