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| Join hands, destroy extremist outfits in Kashmir | | Forging lasting peace | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 26: It was in the late 1980s that sectarian and secessionist violence engulfed Kashmir valley and parts of Jammu province. The rise of separatist movement was the immediate fallout of the wholesale rigging of the 1987 Assembly elections in the Valley. Had the NC and the Congress not joined hands to win the 1987 Assembly elections using all means, Kashmir valley would not have seen the rise of separatist movement of the type the nation has been witnessing since then. The NC and the Congress under the questionable leadership of Farooq Abdullah and Rajiv Gandhi did win the election and formed Government, but the NC-led Government could not complete its full term as the situation in the Valley went out of the Farooq Abdullah's hands. He not only resigned from the post of Chief Minister on January 19, 1990 but also dissolved the Assembly and fled away to London, where he stayed for nearly five years. He returned to Kashmir only on the eve of the 1996 Assembly elections. Ironically, the NC won the election hands down and formed Government with Farooq Abdullah as the Chief Minister for the last time.
The period from 1987 to 1996 saw the formation of many extremist and separatist outfits with Pakistan taking full advantage of the disturbed condition in the Valley to promote its anti-India agenda. Extremists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Syed Salah-ud-Din, to mention only few, who belonged to one particular religious sect that has been ruling the state and exploiting the people of Jammu and Ladakh since 1947, all joined hands to promote the Pakistani agenda in J&K, as also to cleanse the Valley of non-Muslims, particularly Kashmiri Hindus. They were successful to a considerable extent. They succeeded to muddy the Indian waters in the Valley and other parts of the state because they got overt and covert support from certain elements in the establishment in Delhi. In fact, the successive "secular" Governments in the state, including the Congress-led UPA Government, allowed the situation to deteriorate in the Valley by not reining in the likes of Geelani, who made optimum use of the weak-kneed policies of New Delhi and played havoc with the minorities and the Indian state with the help of their handful terrorists, killers and traitors. The attitude of the successive Governments to these separatists and extremists was also very soft.
What Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik, Shah, Salah-ud-Din and their ilk did during all these more than 28 years of sectarian and secessionist violence is in public domain and, hence, there is no need to catalogue here all those incidents which disturbed peace in the Valley and other parts of the state in their desperate bid to dismember India by de-linking J&K from it. Suffice to say that they caused immense damage to the polity and society. They succeeded because they created an impression among the gullible Kashmiri Muslims that they were their true representatives and that New Delhi their real enemy.
But things have changed in the Valley since September 6, when incessant rains and flash floods ravaged the Valley proper and Jammu province. These extremists and Pakistani agents remained safe and secure in their hideouts during those days when the affected people needed the moral and material support. It was New Delhi and its various agencies which came to the rescue of the flood victims. The extremists like Geelani, who shamelessly sought and got the Army help for their own dirty and undesirable lives, came on to the scene only to hamper the ongoing rescue and relief operations and internationalize the settled issue of J&K. Again, there is no need to refer to the dirty role which they played during the past 6-7 days, as everything they did was widely reported by objective sections of print and electronic media. Suffice to say that the floods have turned out to be a blessing in disguise in the sense that Geelani, Malik and others of their ilk behaved in a fashion which only exposed their hypocrisy.
Now that these extremists stand totally exposed, it is time for all to join hands to destroy them and their sectarian and separatist outfits like APHC (G), APHC (M), JKLF and JKHC. The first step needed to be taken by the state Government. It must declare these outfits illegal, anti-national, anti-democracy and anti-people and book and try all these extremists. The rest of the job will be done by the people who suffered immensely because they trusted the likes of Geelani. |
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