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| Hurriyat just one formation, says Sartaj Aziz | | Resolution of J&K | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 29: Hurriyat Conference is just one formation, right to self-determination doesn't necessarily mean referendum, the meetings between Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit and Hurriyat leaders held in Delhi on August 18 and 19 were ill-timed, J&K is a bilateral issue and New Delhi must start dialogue process with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue. This precisely was what Pakistan National Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz said on September 27 at New York in an interview to Rahul Kanwal of the India Today Group after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his maiden speech in the United Nations General Assembly.
His first four comments -- Hurriyat Conference is just one formation, right to self-determination doesn't necessarily mean referendum, the meetings between Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit and Hurriyat leaders held in Delhi on August 18 and 19 were ill-timed and J&K is a bilateral issue - were significant. Significant because all the four meant a sort of climb down on the part of Pakistan --- a failed, rouge and irresponsible state and considered as epicenter of global terrorism.
By saying that the Hurriyat Conference was just one formation, Sartaj Aziz undermined, and very rightly, its very status and suggested that there are other leaders in J&K as well whose views also needed to be ascertained or cannot be ignored. Similarly, by saying that right to self-determination doesn't always mean referendum and that there are many other means to ascertain the views of the people of J&K, he deflated his own Pakistan's balloon and cut Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his ilk to their size.
Likewise, by saying that J&K is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, Aziz endorsed the Indian view and indirectly told the Kashmiri Muslims that they are not a party to the so-called Kashmir dispute and that their only role is to play to the Pakistani anti-India tunes and nothing else. And by saying that the meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and Hurriyat leaders were ill-timed, Aziz further undermined the position of the Hurriyat and his own foreign office. In other words, he clearly suggested that Islamabad did commit a mistake by allowing meetings between the Pakistan High Commissioner and the Hurriyat leaders.
All this should be taken to mean a setback to the already discredited Hurriyat leadership and others in Kashmir and vindication of the Indian stand on the India-Pakistan dialogue. It should also be source of satisfaction to the people of Jammu sand Ladakh, besides all those Kashmiris, both Muslims and Hindus, who are fed up with the Hurriyat leadership and the votaries of autonomy and self-rule. Besides, all this should suggest that under-pressure-Pakistan went on the defensive after Prime Minister rebuffed the Pakistani Prime Minister in the UNGA in the presence of hundreds of members of the UN. |
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