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| Despite media attention New Delhi has reduced separatists to nonentities | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 24: The JKLF Chief, Mohd. Yasin Malik, seem to have been so much elated and excited to have been invited by Pakistan High Commissioner, Abdul Basit, to attend Pakistan Day in the premises of the High Commission that he "murdered" Macaulay's language when he said that "we are disputed." He was simply answering questions posed by newsmen when he said "I am not an Indian. We are disputed."
Does "we" stand for land or a group of human beings ? Malik alone can answer it. When in August last New Delhi called off foreign secretary level talks it did so in protest against Abdul Basit's invitation to Kashmir separatists for a tete-a-tete in the premises of Pakistan High Commission. At that stage New Delhi dished out its plea on calling off the talks. It said that since Basit had been told not to invite separatists he did so which provoked New Delhi to call of the foreign secretary level talks. For the sake of argument one would support New Delhi's stand at that stage.
But what was the provocation to New Delhi when some separatists accepted Abdul Basit's invitation and were present on Monday in the High Commission wearing finest garments? Apparently New Delhi should have not felt provoked because during the last several years these separatists were being invited to the Pakistan Day celebrations with the premises of the High Commission in New Delhi. And every time interaction between the separatists and the officials in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi or between senior leaders from Islamabad and the Kashmiri separatists within the premises of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi used to receive lesser importance by the media in India than the Monday's interaction received.
The moment these separatists saw a battery of mediamen from various newspapers and electronic media they opened up and the first shot was fired by Syed Ali Shah Geelani who simply said "we are repressed and oppressed because of state terrorism."
His one line statement and Malik's remarks that he is not an Indian has rightly caused a furore in the political circles in New Delhi and in Kashmir. And impression had gone round in the Kashmir valley that separatists had won the day which was greeted by unfurling Pakistani flags at a couple of places as mark of solidarity with people of Pakistan who were celebrating Pakistan Day.
It is quite interesting, intriguing and amazing that a meeting between Hurriyat leaders and Pakistani officials in New Delhi is invariably preceded by trouble on the LOC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir. In August last when separatists were invited to New Delhi for talks by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit it was preceded by ceasefire violations on the IB in Jammu which had forced several thousand families to flee to safer places. And when the separatists had travelled to New Delhi on Monday it was preceded by terrorist attack on Kathua police station and later at the Army camp at Samba in which six people including some security personnel were killed and several others injured before all the four terrorists were eliminated.
This way Islamabad seems to trigger border conflict during the time it invites separatists for talks in New Delhi. Is it a coincidence or a deliberate bid to derail peace process? And despite this Islamabad continues to make repeated pleas for resumption of bilateral dialogue. And if the Hurriyat leaders have started treating their Monday meeting with Abdul Basit as their first success they are mistaken. New Delhi has reacted by announcing that there was no scope for involving Hurriyat leaders in talks between India and Pakistan on the plea that the Kashmir issue or other issues could be resolved through bilateral talks. This way New Delhi has reduced the Hurriyat leaders to nonentities. Their irrelevance had been confirmed during the recent Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections when people had not responded to the calls for poll boycott given by the Hurriyat leaders. |
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