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| What the interlocutors on J&K stood for? | | Throw report into dustbin | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: A Saturday's report quoting a senior Ministry of Home Affairs suggested that the Union Government is likely to ask the Jammu & Kashmir Government to give its views on the October 2011 report of the interlocutors on the state. The UPA Government had appointed three interlocutors - Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari in October 2010 in the wake of widespread protests in the Valley which resulted in more than 110 killings of hooligans and anti-India elements. The report which appeared in several local dailies in the state, if correct, should cause concern, as the report that was prepared by the interlocutors was not just divisive and pro-separatist but also anti-Jammu, anti-Ladakh and anti-minorities. The report needs to be thrown into the dustbin like the BJP led NDA Government threw the 2000 National Conference's Autonomy Committee report into the dustbin.
The report had, among other things, suggested amendments in the Public safety Act (PSA), review of the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Besides, the report had virtually endorsed the viewpoints of the seditionists in Kashmir that Jammu & Kashmir was a disputed territory, that Pakistan was a stakeholder, that there was the need for trilateral talks between India, Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists, that Kashmir was the most important factor in the political situation in the state and that if peace was to be restored in the Valley, the aspirations of the Kashmiri Muslims had been considered, appreciated and recognized. Not only this, the interlocutors' report had also recommended rationalization of security installations by reducing their presence to a few strategic locations and creating mobile units for rapid response. In other words, the report had recommended withdrawal of the Army and paramilitary forces from certain areas of the state overlooking the fact that the situation in the state was highly volatile like it is today.
The fact of the matter is that the interlocutors' report had put forth highly dangerous suggestions and it had recommended virtually nothing for the people of Jammu Province and Ladakh region, internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, refugees from west Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir and migrants of 1965 and 1971.
It is hoped that the BJP-led NDA Government would review its decision considering the fact that an overwhelming majority of population in the state and the nation as a whole are opposed to the report on the ground that the report, if accepted and implemented, would only help seditionists in Kashmir accomplish what they failed to accomplish till date. There are already reports that the reported move of the Union Government to seek the views of the Jammu & Kashmir Government on the roundly condemned report has infuriated many in Jammu, including the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus and refugees of west Pakistan and PoJK. |
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