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| Dirty games being played under the garb of calamity | | Army & AFSPA | | Rustam
jammu, Oct 2: Anti-national forces and sectarian elements in the Valley are speaking many languages simultaneously. They are feeling alarmed because of the rising popularity of the Army and various agencies of the Government of India in Kashmir owing to their splendid humanitarian work and it is this that has unnerved the vested interests in Kashmir who see in disturbed conditions an opportunity that helps them promoted their ulterior interests. Among them, there are elements who are claiming that the "distance" between Delhi and Srinagar has "further widened at a time of this huge tragedy (read devastation caused by floods). At the same time, they are acknowledging that "NDRF and Army's role has been significant in helping and rescuing people". They are brazenly indulging in double and triple-speak.
One such person, who is anti-India by conviction, sectarian to the core and known for spreading misinformation in the Valley, the other day admitted in writing that "when I spoke with those who were beneficiaries of their (Army and NDRF) effort did acknowledge that" and that "I myself saw Army and NDRF struggling through different tides to reach out to the stranded". But in the same breath he condemned the national media, especially TV channels, and accused them of describing the Army and NDRF as "angels. His main grouse against the said TV channels was that they "justified a black law as Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) with the fact that now Army has rescued 60,000 people (in various parts of Kashmir valley, especially Srinagar city,) and this law must continue, is tragic in himself".
In other words, this rabidly anti-India member of the so-called Kashmiri civil society, who also claims that he is an opinion-maker, snubbed the votaries of the AFSPA, virtually saying that they are exploiting the humanitarian work to perpetuate the institution of Army in the Valley. The AFSPA gives a legal immunity to the armed forces involved in anti-insurgency operation. Significantly, this perverted personality in the Valley, who all along condemned the Indian Army saying it was involved in "human rights violations" in the Kashmir valley, had also the audacity to say that "by any standards of response to a disaster the Armed Forces have a duty to come to the rescue of the people and if Army, NDRF and Air Force jumped into action, it was part of that duty". Of course, it is the moral duty of the Army to come to the rescue of the people as and when needed, but the Army needs certain laws which give them a legal immunity as they were, and are, working in a highly hostile environment. You cannot expect the Army to do work in a situation with their hands tightly tide.
All these formulation of this "leading" member the Kashmiri "civil society" and several others of his ilk are highly misleading. Even more misleading are their formulations which seek to tell the Kashmiri Muslims that whatever the Army did during and after the floods was aimed at "re-conquering Kashmir. It's all non-sense. The self-less, committed and compassionate Army and other agencies of the Government of India only did what they had been doing in the state since October 27, 1947, the day they landed in Kashmir to evict the Pakistani intruders from the Indian soil. The Indian Army doesn't do any "ehsaan" when they save and rescue any Indian citizen and provide them relief; they only discharge their obligations towards the nation of which the Kashmiri Muslims are also an integral part. |
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