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| Tihar may embitter further relations between Geelani, Mirwaiz | | Clash of egos, interests | | Rustam
Jammu, Feb 22: APHC (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who worked together for sometime and then parted ways following some so-called ideological differences, may pull each other's legs in the coming days during the wake of the February 9 hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail, Delhi. Geelani wants the State's merger with Muslim Pakistan whose present leadership has been maintaining distance from the APHC (G) separatist for sometime now. Mirwaiz, who right now is in the good books of Pakistan, unlike Geelani, has been talking of many solutions, including former Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf's four-point Kashmir formula, notwithstanding the fact that the present Pakistani leadership has rejected out-of-hand the so-called 4-point solution.
Reports clearly suggest that both Geelani and Mirwaiz factions are in a confrontation mode. For example, the APHC (M) only yesterday publicly expressed its disapproval of the so-called protest calendar issued only the other day by the APHC (G) to put pressure on the authorities so that they hand over the body of executed Guru to his family. The resentment was not explicit, but the message was very clear and the message was that the APHC (M) is preparing itself for countering the APHC (G). The APHC (M) without naming Geelani said that the latter's approach is fraught with dangerous consequences for the separatist movement. It, according to a report, suggested that the approach of the APHC (G) could prove "fatal" for the secessionist movement. It didn't name anyone, but it reportedly declared that it "rejects the politics of domination". "The Hurriyat (M) strongly rejects the politics of domination on one another. It would prove fatal for the struggle," the APHC (M) reportedly said after its executive body meeting, held on Tuesday. It obviously hinted at Geelani and his outfit.
As for the reaction of the APHC (G), its spokesman Ghulam Mohammad Ganai reportedly rejected the allegations leveled by the APHC (M) and accused it of being egoist and not interested in unity. He, in fact, said that "others" are "not sincere. "They (APHC-M) have their own views which we cannot question. But they must give up their egos first," he was quoted as saying. "No doubt that there was a unified strategy by the leaders during unrest of 2008 and 2010, but joint consultation is possible only when people shun their egos…Two or three days of strike once a week won't lead to an economic breakdown (in the Kashmir valley). There is no alterative left except to opt for peaceful shutdown, as India has left no other option for Kashmiris," he also reportedly said.
The fact is that the APHC (M) and the APHC (G) washed their dirty linen in public, thus suggesting that the unity between the two was not possible and that both the separatists have their own axes to grind. Actually, Geelani and Mirwaiz, like JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, currently in an anti-India tour to Pakistan, and JKDFP chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah, had went their own way believing in the newly-coined phrase "divided we stand, united we fall". They are leaders of localities they live in, besides of a few others who benefit from their company with these discredited "freedom fighters". They are not "freedom fighters"; they are businessmen who have set up their shops in Kashmir, Delhi, Pakistan and some other important places where they do lucrative business. Besides, they thrive on the blood of innocents. It is a different story that New Delhi has been allowing them to do what they have been doing to mint easy money at the cost of India and national unity. |
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