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| NC, Pakistan on the same page | | Bating for Pakistan | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 29: Two days after Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that Jammu and Kashmir was not an internal issue of India, that Kashmir is one of the oldest issues on the United Nations Security Council agenda and that India must start dialogue with Pakistan to resolve Jammu and Kashmir, NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah expressed almost similar views and said that if peace was to return to the state on a permanent basis, India and Pakistan have to talk to each other. He made common cause with Pakistan a day after Pakistan-sponsored terrorists struck at Dayalachak in the Hiranagar area - terror strike that left one innocent civilian dead and three others seriously injured. One Indian soldier also got martyred. He laid down his precious life for the national cause. The Dayalachak terror attack should have made Farooq Abdullah to urge New Delhi to avenge it taking recourse to all available means, but it was not to be. On the contrary, he behaved like the Pakistani spokespersons behave. "India and Pakistan need to sit together to have decisive talks to end militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. It (Kathua attack) is a proof that militancy in our neighbourhood has not stopped. Let me make one thing clear that without settlement with Pakistan, militancy will not end," he told reporters in Srinagar. "The talks between the two countries have to be very decisive so that militancy ends, otherwise the people of Jammu and Kashmir will continue to suffer and the militants will continue to cross the border. Howsoever impermeable we might make it (the Line of Control) they (militants) will still penetrate as you have seen in Kathua. That is why I have always said, not only here but even in Indian Parliament, that... India and Pakistan must sit down and sort out their affairs as quickly as possible so that this militancy can end," he also said.
The statement of Farooq Abdullah, who is contesting election from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, not only suggested that he and his NC and Pakistan are on the same side as far as their stand on Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, but also suggested that he could adopt any line to win election and enjoy power. That he did not utter a single word to suggest that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and that he asserted that a decisive dialogue with Pakistan is imperative to end militancy in the state must expose him and his party and establish that the Kashmir-based "mainstream" political outfits are no different from those of APHC-M, APHC-G, JKLF and so on. Farooq Abdullah is not an ordinary politician. He is an important Minister in the Union Cabinet and hence, what he says should be construed as the official line of the Congress-led UPA Government. It's no wonder then that the outraged Jammu held the week-kneed policies and the UP Government and its soft approach towards Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists directly responsible for the deadly Dayalachak terror attack. Indeed, the real danger is not from Pakistan or from Kashmiri separatists, the real danger to India is from those in Kashmir who masquerade as mainstream politicians, democrats and secularists. Infact, they and the Congress have undermined the institution of Indian state and created an environment that suits the hostile nations and separatists. The nation has to act against such undesirable and questionable formations and bring to power those who consider India a state in the real sense of the term. We need a Government similar to the one Israel has. There is no other alternative. |
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