Pak comrades differ: China has a role to play

Indian Communists,especially the CPM,may hold the view that China or any other country has no role to play in resolving the decades-old differences between India and Pakistan....

Indian Communists,especially the CPM,may hold the view that China or any other country has no role to play in resolving the decades-old differences between India and Pakistan,but comrades from Islamabad beg to differ.

Communist leaders from Pakistan are of the view that China,which has close links with Pakistan,can influence Islamabad and can in fact play the role of mediator. This at a time when the CPM has ruled out scope for any third party intervention in the light of Indo-Pak ties finding a mention in the US-China joint statement.

China can influence Pakistan. The Indo-Pak issue has been going on for long. Somebody will have to act to bring in peace in the region. We are against any intervention by the US. Washington has no role whatsoever to play in South Asia or Asia. But China is a neighbour. When two neighbours fight,a third neighbour can mediate, Imdad Qazi,a central secretariat member of the Communist Party of Pakistan,told The Sunday Express. Qazi is here to attend the international Communist conference where China is represented by a four-member delegation.

Meanwhile,CPM and CPI leaders conveyed to the Chinese delegates that China should refrain from any such intervention. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said,They have told us that Beijing does not interfere nor does it gives views on such matters. There is no role for any third party, the CPM Politburo member added.