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| In Srinagar, Omar bats for Pak; in Delhi, Farooq challenges Pak | | Double game | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 1: Are the people of Jammu & Kashmir fool and gullible? Don't they understand what NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah and NC working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah are saying and doing? It appears the father-son duo believe that they can fool the people of the state by speaking differently on the same issue.
Yesterday, Omar Abdullah spoke on Pakistan in Srinagar and Farooq Abdullah in Delhi. Talking to reporters after inaugurating Jammu & Kashmir Bank "Dastkaar Mela" at Badamwari in Srinagar, Omar Abdullah said he will continue to support dialogue between India and Pakistan for the resolution of the so-called Kashmir issue. "We have always been supporting dialogue process (between Delhi and Islamabad) and we will continue to do so," he reportedly said, adding that "the decision on talks with Islamabad has to be taken by New Delhi and that too at the highest level" and that "our Prime Minister will decide whether there should be talks with Pakistan or not," he said.
The same day, Farooq Abdullah took on Pakistan and asserted that Islamabad would never be in a position to grab Kashmir. "This has been their dream for many many years. From this rostrum, I would like to tell their country (Pakistan) they will never be able to take Kashmir," Farooq Abdullah said while addressing the international conference of jurists on international terrorism. "Jo Dusroon Ke Liye Qabar Khodtay Hain, Woh Unmain Khud Gir Jatay Hain (those who dig graves for others, themselves fall into it)…Pakistan is facing same scourge of terrorism that they once directed on Jammu & Kashmir. They terrorized the people hoping that the boundaries will change. They attacked the legislature, they attacked the Indian Parliament. Thank God, they were not able to enter. God knows what would have happened. But they are still there. Al Qaeda still exists and there are promoters of these agencies and they are state owned," he also said.
Farooq Abdullah made these statements in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who underlined the "serious challenge" and "potent threats" of cult of terror and cautioned that "fight against it does not leave scope for compromising with liberty and freedom".
What is all this going on? The NC president is speaking one thing in Delhi and the NC working president is singing a different song in Srinagar. And still the NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal and others of his ilk accuse the PDP of saying one thing in Srinagar, another in Jammu and yet another thing in Delhi. By making such contradictory statements the Abdullahs are only losing their support-base even in Kashmir. |
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