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| Nayar lambasts Farooq for his support to Hurriyat | | 'Pak a stakeholder' | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: The NC is becoming more and more critical of India with each passing day. In other words, its anti-India campaign is becoming shrill. It has started indulging in kind of politics which has all the potential provoking communal riots in the sensitive border Jammu & Kashmir State and rest of the country and creating a situation similar to the one the All-India Muslim League created before 1947 in British India and some princely state - situation which culminated in the communal partition of India, emergence of Muslim Pakistan, displacement of population on an unprecedented scale, murder, loot, plunder, rape and what not.
It is leaving none in any doubt that it stands for complete separation from India and for a theocratic dispensation in which the non-Muslim minorities, who constitute almost 40 per cent of the state's population, and other ethnic and religious minorities like the Shiite Muslims, Gujjar and Bakwal Muslims and Pathowari-speaking Muslims, who wrongly call them "Paharis", will have no place and no say and would be subjected to the kind of treatment the Pakistani Sunni establishment has been meting out to the non-Muslim minorities and religious groups like the Shiite Muslims in Pakistan. Pakistani Sunni leadership, both political and religious, and the Army and the ISI have already liquidated bulk of the non-Muslim minorities and they are now busy in persecuting the Shiite Muslims and other non-Sunni religious sects.
The NC is organizing workers conventions in different parts of Kashmir and in those areas of Jammu where Muslims are somewhat more numerous and its leaders are using the opportunity to make everyone know what they actually stand for. They are not only reiterating their stand that "autonomy is the only constitutionally approved document", but also saying that they will continue to "fight for the restoration of sovereign character of the state" (read complete separation from India). "We have to end the hostility that one can feel between the two neighboring countries (India and Pakistan) and its only National Conference and its demand for the restoration of autonomy that can and will be the beginning of a tomorrow where both the neighboring countries would be wedded into a common market," they are saying. "If autonomy is restored then Jammu & Kashmir can provide an antidote against the animosity, bitterness and mistrust that last six decades have created between India, Pakistan and Kashmir," they are also saying, and adding that "NC is the only party which can end the animosity, anger and uncertainty that last sixty five years have created but for that autonomy in its entirety should be restored".
They are saying, "We must work and follow the guidelines of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. Sheikh spent decades in prison but never compromised on his principles and we will do anything and everything possible to continue to fight for your political rights". In other words, they are urging the party workers to tread the path his father had charted in 1952-1953. Sheikh Abdullah had in 1952-1953 challenged the state's accession with India and virtually demanded a sovereign status for the entire State, notwithstanding the fact that Jammu and Ladakh, besides the non-Muslim minorities in Kashmirlike the Kashmiri Hindus, were not with him and that they had between October 1947 and 1953 repeatedly opposed the politics, National Conference-style. The Sheikh was removed from the office of Wazir-e-Azam on August 9, 1953 and sent to the jail. That time the Sheikh had not only dared to challenge the Indian State but also hobnobbed with the United States with a view to seeking its support so that he could set up a "Switzerland-type independent Kashmir". His long-cherished aim was to become Sultan of Kashmir. This is the path the NC leaders are urging his party workers to tread to achieve the goal his father could not achieve.
They have turned so radical that they are even asking the party workers to join the movement launched by Hurriyat. And on Wednesday, Farooq Abdullah told visiting BJP leader Yashwant Sinha that holding unconditional dialogue with all "stakeholders and Pakistan" was a must to resolve the issue.
The most significant aspect of the whole situation is that even pro-autonomy opinion-makers like Kuldip Nayar have trained their guns at Farooq Abdullah. Only today, Nayar took to task Farooq Abdullah and said that by offering support to the Hurriyat, he has lost whatever credibility he had. |
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