A Diplomatic Masterstroke By India!
Is India going to win a big diplomatic game by hosting the G20 Summit 2023 in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh? The Indo-Arab Relations.
By the time when this article will be publish Amarnath yatra which is one important events for Hindus will be in its mid phase and getting extreme level of security like the one which was never given before because months before that the attacks on civilians increased in Kashmir especially on Hindu civilians and Pakistan backed terrorist outfits warned that they will target the Amarnath Yatra too but the Indian Army’s Chinar Corp's troops along with CRPF,ITBP and J&K police is ensuring the event gets executed safely because it clears a path of a very big diplomatic win.
I can understand the question in your mind, how this will score a diplomatic win?
You will get to know that in the article ahead.
India will take the presidency of the G20 group in December and will host the 2023's G20 summit and this thing is almost confirmed that it will take place in Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh and that’s why a 5 member committee is also formed and to prepare for the summit. But what is this G20?
G20 is a group of 19 countries and European Union which work as intergovernmental forum this group is made up of all the major economic powers of the world who talks on big issues like economic, environmental and financial stability, these all basically are the big guns of the world. It was obvious by the time there will be an announcement of G20 summit in Kashmir in 2023, after that one country would cry a lot in this as usual begging for help start to China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia but nobody spoke anything, everybody had their own reasons.
Kashmir issue was not providing benefiting for Turkey in its domestic politics as it was using it for quite a time now and Saudi Arabia's prince came to see off Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his aircraft in his recent visit. Chinese tried to built some diplomatic pressure on India so that Pakistanis can get happy and Chinese continue their exploitation through CPEC and recently the foreign minister of India and China meet and talked for an hour in G20 summit Indonesia and you will be amazed and the Pakistanis will be worried after reading this that now the G20 summit 2023 will not only be hosted in Kashmir only but also in Ladakh but why nobody is objecting the location of the summit? when Kashmir is a disputed territory according to the statements of the most of G20 countries. Especially Arabs who always sided with Pakistani on this issue why they are silent?
Look in geopolitics, interdependencies is a complicated and complex feature means being dependent on each other. Arabs understand this thing very well that Oil and Gas will be able to float them for a limited time periods that's why they have to invest in other industries and India understood and utilized this sentiments pretty well. India's Arab outreach started in 2015, when an Indian Prime Minister visited UAE for the first time after 34 years. Bahrain's visit of 2019 was the first ever visit of any Indian Prime Minister ever. In 2017 Mohammad Bin Zayed who was the crown prince of UAE was invited as a chief guest in India's Republic Day Parade and this was happening after 50 years in the history of India and he was the first Arab chief guest to do that.
This visit of Mohammad Bin Zayed was very significant because India signed strategic partnership agreement there which aimed at increasing the bilateral trade by 60% and that's how UAE's $75 billion investment started in India. India have significantly and strategically diversified its relations with Gulf countries whether it is in energy sector or financial security and defence.
India is enjoying a very strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia since 2010 when PM Manmohan Singh signed Riyadh Declaration. India is also maintaining friendly ties with Qatar and Kuwait and doing significant trading with them.
India and Oman also maintain strategic relations, we signed the strategic partnership agreement with Oman in 2008 and both the countries are working quite closely after that.
But why did I told you about these particular countries?
Because these countries together makes the GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL and these are the same countries which are the backbone of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which has spoken in the favor of Pakistan on the Kashmir worldwide. OIC is the same body which got threats from Pakistan in 2020 to speak on Kashmir issue and if they can't do meeting on Kashmir issue, Pakistan will do a meeting with the members who are supporting it and the problem is OIC is led by Saudis and they didn't liked this mischievous behavior of Pakistan so they asked for the repayment of $1 billion dollars of their loan to Pakistan from Pakistan by which there was quite literally "Dar ka Mahol" in Pakistan though China saved them this time but Pakistan still owes Saudis their money. But by such stunts Pakistan’s foreign ministry is axing its own foot from the time India changed the status of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and the other reason could be that anyone in the Pak foreign ministry is getting the salaries then they get caught either stealing someone's purse or chocolates from any store.
I mentioned about Amarnath Yatra in the beginning of the article and how Indian security forces are engaged 24 hours to make this event secured actually Amarnath Yatra is one of the most targeted religious processions, it was attacked 36 times in past 27 years in which 53 pilgrims lost their lives but this time's Amarnath Yatra will be the biggest indicator of normalcy and security in Kashmir this will set a very positive podium for India to host G20 summit in Kashmir and this will be the biggest diplomatic win by India on Kashmir issue because G20 summit in Kashmir under the Indian banner will officially make all the global powers accepts that KASHMIR AND LADAKH ARE INTEGRAL AND INSEPERABLE PARTS OF INDIA and every sane mind would agree that G20 summit in Kashmir is truly a diplomatic masterstroke by India.
Thankyou EAM Shri. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar & Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi Ji, NSA Shri Ajit Doval & whole team of Ministry of External Affairs who are working very hard day and night to make India a Vishwa Guru.
Dhanyawad.
Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
Purvam Tomar, OSCP Hacker & Geopolitics Enthusiast.