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| Truce or not: Violence their best policy | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu | Sep 20
You called for a ceasefire and they are asking for waging a war in Jammu and Kashmir. Still you believe that talking to them is the only way out for resolving the issues and bringing peace in this state.
Much has been said and commented on the ceasefire over these days. Particularly ahead of the Ramadan and then ever since this holy month begin, the ceasefire has been a talk of the "moderates" who want Government of India to pack up its forces as they claim that upon such a situation the militants will lay down arms.
"Ceasefire" is a word which sounds so sweet and interesting. Ever since the break out of separatist violence in Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India has made this experiment at least twice in the state but the results have been bloodiest. Once can still recall that in 2000 when on the plea of Hizbul Mujahideen the government of India had announced a ceasefire that took toll of 84 lives in just 2 hours.
Still, there are some political groups in the state who are ready to looking beyond the ceasefire initiative from the government of India. After two worst experiments, these advocates of ceasefire should better urge the militant and separatist leadership to hold the gun and then seek response from the government of India.
The advocates of the ceasefire must also understand that while the talk of truce is till on that there has been a threat of violence from the Lashkar-e-Toiba which has called for waging jehad in Jammu and Kashmir. Ceasefire, or no ceasefire, violence has been the best policy for militants not only in Jammu and Kashmir but everywhere.
Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, founder of the militant Lashkar-e-Toiba and chairman of front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa, has called for intensification of "jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan" to "strengthen Pakistan's defence". Saeed said that such a strategy was necessary to contain the "growing influence of India " in the sub-continent. "Over the past some years, India has been busy destabilising Pakistan. So there is a need to strengthen Pakistan's defence. This can only be realised if we step up jehad in Kashmir and Afghanistan," Saeed said in a statement. He also asked Islamabad to call off its "unilateral peace process" since it was "only strengthening India's rigidity".
Reacting to the Jehad threat in Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed's statement calling for jihad against India to stop its growing influence, the Chief of Army Staff, Gen JJ Singh today told a news agency in Delhi that "There is a need to counter terrorism. We must be prepared to meet the challenge from such forces."
He, however, said there was no need for him to elaborate on Defence Minister A K Antony's statement that there will be no unilateral ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir during the holy month of Ramzan.
Giving his assessment of the situation in Kashmir, General Singh complimented the army for bringing down the level of violence in the state.
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