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| Thank God, Musharraf is not at the helm in Pakistan | | Conspiracy against nation | | Neha
JAMMU, May 16: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's fall in 2008 following the countrywide lawyers' agitation turned out to be a blessing in disguise for India with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Sonia Gandhi Congress-led UPA not being able to compromise the Indian position on Jammu & Kashmir. Had General Musharraf been at the helm of affairs in Pakistan after 2008, the UPA Government would have adopted and enforced the former Pakistani President's five-point formula and caused an irreparable damage to the country's vital interests.
The five-point formula envisaged self-governance (read semi-independence) for the state, virtual demilitarization, irrelevant borders, free movement between two parts of Jammu & Kashmir and joint-control and joint-management or India-Pakistan's joint sovereignty over Jammu & Kashmir. In other words, it envisaged a regime that would be of one community, by one community and for one community, enslave all others and empower Pakistan to enjoy co-equal sovereign powers with India in Jammu & Kashmir. That General Musharraf and Manmohan Singh were on the same page as far as their approach towards Jammu & Kashmir was concerned became manifestly clear on May 13 this year, when former Indian diplomat and Manmohan Singh's point-man Satinder K Lambah spoke in Kashmir University on the India-Pakistan relations as well as the solution to the Kashmir issue.
It was for the first time that the outgoing PM Manmohan Singh's back-channel man with Islamabad for almost ten years Satinder K Lambah spoke on Kashmir and in Kashmir itself. The opportunity was provided to him by the Institute of Kashmir Studies, Kashmir University, which organized a seminar on the future of Jammu & Kashmir and dialogue between India and Pakistan and its nature. Addressing the anti-India seminar, Lambah revealed the broad contours of the Kashmir solution which were being worked out between New Delhi and Islamabad not-so-long ago and which, according to report, "had almost pulled off a solution for long running territorial dispute between the two countries". He said that it was basically between 2003 and 2007 that the two country's back-channels worked hard to prepare the roadmap for Kashmir and India-Pakistan relationship and bemoaned the exit of General Musharraf in 2008.
His exit from the office was a great setback, he said, adding that the back-channel talks did continue even after 2008, but with no result. He also made a startling revelation that the Track-II activities continued "uninterrupted" even after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, but the talks did not convert into an agreement between the two countries. What more did Lambah reveal? He revealed in great details the main components of the worked out solution and it included no geographical re-adjustment on Kashmir. It would be proper to quote here a report from Kashmir on the subject.
The report read: "According to him (Lambah) India 'consistently advocated a solution that does not seek to redraw the border or amend the constitution,, but one that makes the boundary irrelevant, enables commerce, communication, contacts and development of Kashmiri people on both sides and that ends the cycle of violence…Lambah mapped out a solution that called for self-governance for internal management in all areas' on both sides of LoC and a Joint Consultative Mechanism that would look into socio-economic issues like Tourism, Travel, Pilgrimages to Shrines, Trade, Health, Education and Culture". The upshot his whole argument, according to this report, was his "hope" that new government in Delhi would engage with Pakistan to evolve a solution which should be acceptable to all stake-holders, particularly the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
What Lambah disclosed was self-explanatory and, hence, there is no need to reflect on the evils which would have followed on the acceptance and implementation of the worked out solution to the so-called Kashmir issue. It is a matter of regret that our own Prime Minister sought to dilute the Indian stand on Jammu & Kashmir, which is legitimately Indian.(hitting Manhohan led govt, also the then Pak dispensation led by Musharaff). |
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