\u2022 Diplomats, press divided over New Delhi\u2019s perceived reluctance to join Trump-led body
\n\u2022 Given his propensity to paint himself as a global peacemaker, The Hindu warns US president may offer to mediate Kashmir dispute<\/p>\n
DESPITE being invited to join the \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 by President Donald Trump, India has yet to formally get involved in the process.<\/p>\n
Conspicuous by its absence from the Davos ceremony where 20 world leaders \u2014 including Trump and Pakistan\u2019s PM Shehbaz Sharif \u2014 signed the board\u2019s charter, some in India are viewing New Delhi\u2019s reluctance through the lens of the Kashmir dispute.<\/p>\n
President Trump says the board\u2019s goal is to make the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza permanent and oversee an interim government in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not just for America, but for the whole world. I think we can spread it to other places. Like we did successfully in Gaza,\u201d he had said at the time.<\/p>\n
But there seems to be concern among some circles that if India signs up for the board \u2014 which Trump envisions as a future replacement for the United Nations \u2014 it may open up the disputed territory of held Kashmir to broader international or American scrutiny.<\/p>\n
Although Trump has repeatedly offered to mediate on the Kashmir issue, especially in the wake of the May 2025 flare-up between the two South Asian rivals, New Delhi has firmly opposed all such overtures thus far.<\/p>\n
According to a BBC Hindi report, the \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 is being formed at a time when the US is withdrawing from several UN organisations, raising the question of whether the board aims to render the world body irrelevant.<\/p>\n
There is also a concern among some circles that the board will only strengthen a unipolar world, a system currently dominated by the US.<\/p>\n
In a recent editorial on the issue, The Hindu newspaper painted Pakistan\u2019s decision to join the board as \u201ca warning signal to India\u201d.<\/p>\n
The newspaper attributed its alarm to the US president\u2019s propensity to playing the \u2018peacemaker\u2019, having already claimed to have solved multiple regional and global conflicts during his first year in office.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026[I]f Trump decides to include the Kashmir dispute in [his] peace plans, the Peace Board will try to resolve it. Once it joins the board, it will also be difficult for India to object to the deployment of its troops in the international peacekeeping force,\u201d the editorial noted.<\/p>\n
Former Indian ambassador to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin, recently wrote in the Times of India that the Security Council resolution has determined the term of this board is until Dec 31, 2027, and that it is obliged to report to the Security Council every six months.<\/p>\n
This is done to ensure that this temporary arrangement does not turn into a permanent global model, he noted, adding that by contrast, Trump\u2019s peace plan seems to have no set term and \u201ccould be used outside Gaza as well\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said that some UN officials are also indicating that this framework can be applied to other conflict areas.<\/p>\n
But Ranjit Roy, who was India\u2019s ambassador to Nepal and Vietnam, believes that it won\u2019t be easy for New Delhi to take a decision on Trump\u2019s \u2018Board of Peace\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia\u2019s dilemma has increased. Whether India accepts it or rejects it, it will have an impact. I think the risks of joining the Peace Board are high. First of all, Trump is its chairman and it seems pointless to expect justice from his transactional approach,\u201d BBC Hindi quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not clear whether each country will have the same status in this,\u201d said Roy.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like in the UN General Assembly, each country has only one vote. When the Security Council approved it, it was limited to Gaza, but now that there have been changes, it could extend beyond Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2022 Diplomats, press divided over New Delhi\u2019s perceived reluctance to join Trump-led body \u2022 Given his propensity to paint himself as a global peacemaker, The Hindu warns US president may offer to mediate Kashmir dispute DESPITE being invited to join the \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 by President Donald Trump, India has yet to formally get involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15547,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions\/15547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}