Kashmir rhetoric and coming evil days

February 5 was observed in Pakistan as Kashmir Solidarity Day. There were messages, statements, speeches, rallies, seminars and TV talks. On February 6, there were reports about these ritualistic exercises. Next day (today), there was hardly any significant reference to the Kashmir issue. Yasin Malik, a Kashmiri leader, currently in Pakistan rightly expressed his unhappiness with the government of Pakistan and the performance of the political leaders. "There is no Pakistan national policy on Kashmir," he said.
UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon has announced the setting up of the UN commission to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. In a speech, in Islamabad, he also referred to the need for addressing and resolving the long outstanding disputes like Kashmir. Little notice was taken of this important reference to the issue of Kashmir by the UN chief executive.
Time was, in the early nineties, a little after the start of the spontaneous indigenous uprising of the desperate Kashmiris when Pakistan (after years of neglect) initiated a move to table a resolution on Kashmir at the UN General Assembly.
So worried was the Indian government that it appealed to US administration to intervene and help withdraw the Pakistani initiative. At Washington's bidding, India readily agreed to open talks on Kashmir with Pakistan. Within a few days the Indian foreign secretary flew to Islamabad to meet his counterpart. It is another story that New Delhi saw to it that the talks yielded nothing.
In 1993 the US assistant secretary of state visited New Delhi and focusing on Kashmir questioned the validity of its accession to India. John Mallot, a State Department official, in so many words asked India to "clean up its act in Kashmir." OIC was then active enough to hold summits and pass resolutions invoking UN directives on Kashmir. The OIC Contact Group on Kashmir regularly met in New York. Nobody talks about this Group any more.
Post nuclear weapon explosions in 1998 after lapse of decades, UN Security Council reverted back to the Kashmir issue and directed secretary-general to address the Kashmir issue. The secretary-general sent a special envoy to visit Pakistan but India refused entry to him. Pakistan did little to follow-up the matter. Also India after the proven nuclear weapon capability realised that defence-wise Pakistan could no longer be brow-beaten and it was desirable to come to terms with Pakistan.
Vajpayee, India's prime minister, arrived at the Wagah Border in a friendship bus, went to Minar-e-Pakistan and acknowledged the reality of Pakistan as an independent country. He in writing along with Nawaz Sharif agreed to settle all disputes with Pakistan including Kashmir.