ANALYSIS OF MR. MOEED YOUSUF INTERVIEW

Analysis of the interview at the platform “Wire on Indian media” between Mr. Karan Thapar, an Indian recognized journalist, and Mr. Moeed Yousaf (national security advisor and strategic policy planning to Pakistan’s P.M).

It was quite an aggressive interview and it was taken right after 15 months of constitutional changes in Azad and Jammu Kashmir. In this interview, 3 supreme questions were asked which were answered right at the spot with the right energy and right logic. Further analysis will reveal this fact to you.

The 3 prime objective questions of this interview are Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan having a provincial status issue, Kulbushan Yadav case and Mumbai attacks 2008. However mutual relationships between India and Pakistan were also discussed later on.

Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan having a provincial status issue:

Thapar inquired why is Pakistan so concerned about India’s internal matters of its dealing with Kashmir status, and how is it different from Pakistan trying to grant Provisional status to POK? Dealing with this first shot was easy enough when putting logic right in journalists’ faces. Mr. Moeed continued Kashmir as a disputed territory and India is giving its best to illegally occupy this state in the international arena. India had removed article 370 too and made demographical changes that are totally illegal too. While the issue of Gilgit is very legal and public debate and the people of that province, themselves want to integrate with Pakistan. He further proceeded that the only way to create peace in Kashmir is doing plebiscite according to the UN Charter of self-determination. Now at this point, the interview was taking another form as who defends and who blames. Getting to the next question.

Kulbushan Yadav case:

In the 2nd prime question what Mr. Thapar wanted to know about was why Pakistan is not giving clear and absolute consular access for their spy Kulbushan case. So as told now the journalist did blame Pakistan for this act. But to his surprise, the game was strong at Mr. Moeed’s side too. So the response was that ICJ had given 3 important binding observations and what Pakistan did, it had just followed them. This was the tone India really needed to be addressed with. Now the heat has risen even more and blaming was at heights. Mr. Moeed did clear to the journalist that the only country supporting terrorism here in India and it was never Pakistan. This reaction was obvious and quite gentle.

Mumbai attacks 2008:

As the interview was now a game of drenching the opposite country in real dirt. So the next question pleaded to be answered was the involvement of Pakistan in inducting Mumbai attacks. Moeed Yousuf in quite manners said that the shreds of evidence were purposely not given to Pakistani prosecutors for the investigation and yet only blaming is a diplomatic game that India should not play. According to my POV, it will be a waste activity to do.

These were the supreme questions well handled by Mr. Moeed, the NSA to PM. The interview ended while discussing Pakistan’s and India’s relationships and suggesting ways to tie this relation with more good and healthy knots. Mr. Moeed says Pakistan is ready to shake hands with India and help in prevailing the peace which also seems to be a future necessity for the two states