news details |
|
|
| Pakistan Kashmir policy is working, hurting India | | Delhi in a state of slumber | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 27: Pakistan's break-India Kashmir policy is working and hurting the nation where it hurts it the most. Its Kashmir policy is based on the premise that Islamabad cannot take Jammu & Kashmir in one go and that it is only in stages that it could accomplish what it calls "unfinished agenda of partition" - annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on the ground that it is a Muslim majority state.
Only the other day, former Inter-Service Intelligence chief Asad Durrani made a revelation to this fact and vouched for what he termed as a "practical approach".
"Take whatever you (Kashmiri leaders) can. You never have to say it is over. Khatam, chhutti. You take it, improve your position, and after a decent interval of five, eight or ten years you come back and ask. In Kashmir's case, this may be how you discuss the solution," Asad Durrani was quoted as saying.
"When it comes to conflict resolution, it has to be an evolutionary process. And everyone must always remember the conventional wisdom; you don't always get what you want," Durrani further said.
What Durrani said can be corroborated from what the Kashmiri leadership has been doing ever since October 1947 with the help of New Delhi. In 1947, Nehru subverted the Instrument of Accession and made Sheikh Abdullah a party to the accession business, despite the fact that only the Maharaja had the authority to decide the fate of his princely state.
Article 370 (October 1949) under which the state got a separate status; the 1952 Nehru-Sheikh Abdullah parleys on the political status and political future of J&K; the May 14, 1954 Article 35-A that further widened gulf between the state and the rest of the country; the 1975 Indira Gandhi -Sheikh Accord that brought Sheikh back to power after a long gap of 22 years and empowered him to review the Central laws introduced after August 9, 1953; the 1986 Rajive Gandhi-Farooq Abdullah Accord; the 2002 Sonia Gandhi/Manmohan Singh-Mufti Sayeed Accord; the 2008 Sonia Gandhi/Manmohan Singh-Farooq Abdullah/Omar Abdullah Accord and the 2015 Narendra Modi/Amit Shah-Mufti Sayeed Accord called the "PDP-BJP Agenda of Alliance" all step by step drove the state away from the national mainstream and promoted the politics of separatism.
The grant of amnesty to nearly 10,000 stone-pelters in Kashmir, the unilateral ceasefire during the month of Ramzan and the Home Minister Rajnath Singh's May 26 statement that New Delhi was prepared to talk to Pakistan and Hurriyat Conference were also steps in the direction the former ISI chief Asad Durrani suggested.
The worst aspect of the whole situation is that the Indian state has never behaved like a genuine state and the result is that Kashmir has almost slipped away and Jammu and Ladakh on the verge of destruction with the minorities feeling unsafe, insecure and completely abandoned. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
