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| Situation hasn't shown any signifcant change | | Stronger is Islamist fundamentalist construct in J&K | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI | AUGUST 20
The government of India has, once again, asserted that Pakistan has not fully dismantled the infrastructure for terrorists and the groups they belong to. New Delhi continues to be of the opinion that various indivduals and organisations and agencies across the Line of Control (LoC) provide moral and material aid to Islamist rebels and separatists in Jammu and Kashmir.
True, violence in Jammu and Kashmir has, in recent days, declined. But the argument that "normalcy" is returning in the troubled State is a flawed one. The situation has not shown any signifcant change, with levels of alienation continuing to be high, and anger against the establishment--Indian establishment, to be precise--hardly having diminished. True, Jammu and Kashmir State is currently not in a deeper quagmire. But one thing is pretty clear--that is,Islamist fundamentalists continue to be unwilling to walk together with Indian on the road to peace.
Notwithstanding the successes achieved by security forces and Jammu and Kashmir police in eliminating leading militants in recent times, the ground situation is not quite satisfactory. Recruitment of Kashmiri youth, officials have admitted, as militants is again becoming evident. Infiltration has, in no way, come to a halt. It will not, at least for the time being.
Apart from the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohamed (JeM), the Hizbul Mujahiden is lately become quite active. In Pakistan, Hizbul Mujahideen is a constituent of the United Jihad Council (UJC), which has rejected the peace process in no uncertain terms. If India does succeed in deepening the peace process within Jammu and Kashmir, this rejectionist positon could engender some escalation of violence.
All this, however, lies in the future. There are groups of people in diferent parts of the Valley of Kashmir that are anxious for early return of peace and normalcy. But, at the same time, fear is the dominat imperative and few politcal leaders, inclkuding those under state protection, feel safe. Many worry that they may be next on the 'hit-list'.
Lack of headway in the Centre's talks with militant groups, particularly Hurriyat Conference, is highly disappointing. Worse still is that advantage could not be taken of the rift in Hurriyat ranks. The powers-that-be in New Delhi and Srinagar will have to admit that it is the Islamists, the Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan that have come out trumps.
For years, Pakistan, its intelligence agencies and jihadi groups have used terror as a conscious strategy. Of late, Islamabad has come under severe pressure to curtail infiltration across the frontiers. Turning off the terrorist tap by Pakistan will determine how far Islamabad's latest overtures go. And New Delhi has, once again, made it clear that the onus is on Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure it has allowed on its territory.
Pakistan's viewpoint: Kashmir, because being Muslim, should have formed part of Muslim Pakistan. Pakistan completely ignores the fact that India is the second largest Muslim country in the world, having more Muslims than Pakistan. The Kashmir poblem, or any such problem for that mater, cannot be resolved without taking into account the repercussions it will have on the rest of the country. |
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