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| Mr Mirwaiz, Kashmir not living a life of bondage; it's ruling the roost | | Jammu, Ladakh crying for justice | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 1: The New Delhi's appeasement policy has emboldened Kashmiri leaders to level wild charges against New Delhi itself. They have turned so irrational and provocative that they do not mind saying things which do not exist at all. The latest example is what secessionist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said. He has said that the people of Kashmir (in this case the majority community) have been living a life of bondage.
"For the past seven decades, the people of Kashmir remain trapped in the rhetoric of the status quo, living a life of bondage in the world's most militarized zone, yearning to come out of it, pining for a breakthrough," he has said, adding that Kashmir has been bleeding and the people of Kashmir continue to pay a heavy price. He has also the audacity of describing Kashmir issue a "human tragedy" and accused India of "occupying people (of Kashmir) and their land against their will".
"Kashmir bleeds and we the people of Kashmir will continue to pay a heavy price. Not that the people of India and Pakistan will not pay. Of course they too will. We are all paying a high price for this utterly mindless status quo which is seen as politically safe by the ruling elite (whether in power or out of power) in India and in Pakistan. Any shift is compromise which amounts to treason," Mirwaiz has said. He has added that the 71-year-old status quo has to be broken if peace was to return to Kashmir and by Kashmir, he means the whole of the State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Mirwaiz has crossed the red line by saying that the people of Kashmir have been living a life of bondage. Who in the world doesn't know that Kashmir and Kashmiri leaders, especially Abdullahs and Muftis, have been at the helm of affairs ever since the state's accession to India in October 1947? They have been controlling every institution in the state and the civil secretariat, jobs, power, money, trade, contacts, professional institutions, scholarships - state and central - have all become their sole preserve. The people of Kashmir are the most prosperous section of Indian society and not one Kashmiri till date has died of hunger and cold. And New Delhi has always been at the back and call of the Kashmiri leaders and Kashmiri people. Only the other day, the government said that "the State and New Delhi are with them".
Actually, it is the people of Jammu and Ladakh, who have been living in bondage with even the law-makers belonging to these discriminated and marginalized regions all through dancing to the tunes of their masters in the privileged Valley and the Valley leaders controlling the political organizations like the NC, the PDP and the Congress. It is the people of Jammu and Ladakh who have been feeling alienated both from Kashmir and New Delhi. It is Jammu which has been housing almost 2 million Hindu-Sikh refugees, all victims of two-nation pernicious doctrine. Again, it is the people of Jammu and Ladakh, who have been crying for justice since 1947 with bulk of them seeking separation of Jammu and Ladakh from Kashmir saying this is the only panacea available to preserve their identity and fulfill their aspirations and needs.
The whole point is that the Kashmiri leadership wants J&K's secession from India in the name of religion, which is not happening and which will never happen as the secession of J&K would mean balkanization of India and destruction of the religious and ethnic minorities in J&K. The sooner the Kashmiri leaders recognize it, the better. |
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