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| Kashmir offensive by Pan-Islamic outfits | | Lashkar-Salahuddin nexus aganst KPs' return to Valley | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 9: The cat is out of the bag. Interception of two messages has brought to the fore what intelligence specialists have termed as " a highly sensational phenomenon" in relation to the tie-up between the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba headquarters and unpredictable chief of the dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin.
The Lashkar-Salahuddin nexus, these specialists have argued, is signifcant, considering the Hizbul Mujahideen supremo's thrust on the "need of the hour to force India to quit Kashmir". This apart, Salahuddin has also advocated the need to "ensure that all plans for the return of Kashmiri Pandit migrants to the Valley are aborted with guns and grenades".
One of the radio intercepts reveals the Hizbul Mujahiden's sinister plan to keep alive "anti-India jihad" in Kashmir and to "protect and preserve at all costs Muslim domination throught the Valley of Kashmir, leaving little space for Kashmirit Pandits' return to their abandoned houses".
The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Salahuddin may difer with each other on several other issues, but the renewed talk of the proposed resetlement of the Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the Valley seems to have resulted in the unity of action and of purpose between the two, at least on the isue of the future of the displaced Pandit community. According to intelligence specialists, the nexus between the LeT and Salahuddin against the return of KPs (Kashmir Pandists) to the Valley was formalised in Lahore recently.
This development took place at a time when the government of India was informed about "new trends and thoughts" that emerged at the "all-important" session held by Pan-Islamic insurgents in Jeddah. By the time the Jeddah session strongly justified the continuance of what was termed as the "ceaseless struggle" against the enemies of Islam across the world, particularly in India, an unwritten agreement was engineered betwen the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Hizbul Mujahideen on the question of preventing "Indian agents and agencies" from rehabilitating Kashmiri Pandit migrants in the 'Muslim Valley'.
Significantly, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Masood Azhar's Jaish-e-Mohammed are for preservation of exc lusively for "100 per cent Muslim population". Equally significant was a recent newspaper report from Chandigarh. It highlighted the unabated "silent migration" of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. If the report were to be believed, only 7,000 KPs are now residing in the Valley against 13,000 in 2002.
Quoting the statistics available with the Srinagar-based Hindu Welfare Society, the newspaper report said that following the mass exodus of the KPs in 1989-90, nearly 25,000 Pandits stayed put in the Valley. Their number is said to have got reduced to 7,000.
A document in the possession of the Union Home Ministry contains highly alarming signals from the ISI-aided Salahuddin. Signal number one: Liberation of Kashmir from Indian occupation. Signal number two: Kashmir's struggle is not for tripartite talks. The struggle is for freedom. Signal number three: 'We shall continue our jihad and we shall force India to quit'.
Salahuddin has been quoted in the document as having proclaimed: "We want a free Kashmir. A soverign Kashmir. A Kashmir free from the clutches of India. It should be Kashmiris who should decide their fate. Anything less than this is not acceptable to us. Freedom is freedom. It can't be maximum or minimum".
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