Musharraf’s Peace Mission
By the Editor

WITH a matchless zest for a durable peace in the volatile vicinities around the globe, with Kashmir, Palestine and Iraq atop, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has set-off a mission to infuse unity among Ummah with an eventual aspire to get the Muslim World, free from all types of perils.

Of-late, he visited Indonesia and Malaysia to continue his interaction with the Muslim leaders to build consensus on fresh initiative on the Palestine issue and to promote unity and harmony in the Ummah.

Significantly, the President is not only making efforts to mobilize a consensus among the Muslim leaders, he is also disseminating the updates on the ongoing Confidence Building Measures [CBMs] between India and Pakistan which, though are moving in a frail style due to New Delhi’s typical and habitual arrogance, yet are aimed at bringing a lasting peace in South Asia through the solution of all the issues with Kashmir at the top of list, as it has been, is, and would continue to remain a core issue between the two nuke-neighbors till the time it is solved in line with the aspirations of the people of the Himalayan State of Jammu & Kashmir.

Realistically, President Musharraf’s visit to Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur were the extension of his consultations with the Saudi, Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian and UAE leadership on fresh proposals to seek resolution of the Palestine issue that is recognized as the root cause of persistent conflict and bloodshed in the Middle East.

Although the exact nature of the proposals is not clear by now, yet it’s understood that the initiative is motivated by his keenness to help end the miseries of the Palestinian people who were forced out of their hearths and homes and are enduring death and destruction over the past over six decades.

Israel has spared no opportunity to break the Palestinians’ will to win back their homeland, but it has failed in its heinous designs.

As a matter of fact, like Kashmiris, the Palestinians are waging a heroic struggle for liberation and are bound to ultimately triumph irrespective of the amount of sacrifices.

President Musharraf had found positive response from the leadership of the Arab countries in the course of his interaction on the fresh proposals on Palestine with them earlier.

A similar response has come from the leadership of Indonesia and Malaysia, two major non-Arab Muslim countries.

There is, in fact, a growing feeling in the Muslim leadership about the frivolity of unduly prolonged confrontation and conflict, since the Muslims are the losers in the ultimate analysis.

It’s, thus, time to take a fresh look at the situation as the old policies have failed to deliver by all perceptions.

We feel optimistic that President Musharraf’s quest for peace mission would help steer the Ummah out of the swamp, as he is truthfully striving to end bloodshed in Palestine and to seek a way out to restore sovereignty and freedom of the Muslim countries.

Hence, it’s earnestly hoped the entire Muslim countries will endorse the initiatives of the President of Pakistan, with one-voice and would support the fresh proposals that he is discussing with the Muslim leadership in best the interest of the Ummah—in totality with eternal peace as the hallmark.●