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| 'Policy of appeasement of Muslims should stop' | | Strategy to change Jammu's ethnic composition: Kaw | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 13: MK Kaw, president of All-India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS), has cautioned the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, against "a definite strategy" which is in place to change the ethnic composition of the Jammu region. And Kaw insists that there is also an attempt to drive a communal cleavage in Ladakh. Kaw's importance as a Kashmiri Pandit leader in Delhi just canot be underrated, considering the fact that the AIKS he is heading is an amalgam of more than 40 groups and organisations of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs).
In his open letter to Manmohan Singh, MK Kaw says that the events of the last one year have shown a steadily increasing level of violence. Kaw adds: "It is not Kashmir Valley alone that is being targeted. There is a definite strategy to change the ethnic compositon of the Jammu region and an atempt to drive a communal cleavage in Ladakh".
MK Kaw has highlighted a few points for the official agencies in general and Prime Minister in particular. Kaw has, in the first place, attacked the Prime Minister for pursuing the "absurd" policies, pronouncing that the "worst" is the policy towards Pakistan. "Whether Pakistan is targeting Indian only because oif the Machiavellkian principle that a state should try to weaken its neighbours, or because it is wreaking revenge for what we did in Bangladesh, or because Pakistan wants Kashmir is irrelevant. Pakistan has declared an open war on India and we are doing nothing about it", states the AIKS president.
While noting that "we are doing nothing because the USA tells us not to retaliate", Kaw has made another point for the Prime Minister to take due cognizace of: "The US is notorious for loking after what it sees as its own global strategic interests and a strong India is what it most definitely does not want". Third point: Gen. Parvez Musharraf has shown time and again that he is wily, unscrupulous and fully in comand. Kaw also insists that there is no need to go to war with Pakistan. There are other options.
Kaw's point number four: Organized attacks are being mounted with lot of competence, skill and precision at strategic targets across India. There are active Pakistan-sponsored terrorist cells all over the country. The objective is to terrorise India into submission, keep the populace in a state of fear and trepidation, extract maximum concessions from India on the negotiating table and to weaken and disintegrate the country. And the AIKS president has stated in his letter to the Prime Minister that the "sensible response" to the situation would consist of the initiatives such as (1) peace talks with Pakistan should be immediately suspended and all world powers should be notified that India has suffered enough and our patience has been exhausted;(2) New Delhi's Kashmir policy must change, and Indian government should stop pandering to the whims of the Hurriyat and stop mollycoddling the militants; (3) the Indian armed forces should be given a free hand to comb the interior areas and kill all the terrorists who have infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir, and (4) India should follow the policy of hot pursuit, and New Delhi should have a limited operation to destroy the training infrasdtructure in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
This apart, MK Kaw has also called for 'summary trials' to ensure that the guilty are speedily and as equately punished. He wants "a policy of limited but efective reprisal against Pakistan, so that it is forced to pay an inordinately high price for every incident of violence it perpetrates". He also wants the Prime Minister and his government to stop the "policy of appeasement" of Muslims. Besides this, all access to international sources of funding, Kaw has demanded, should be effectively plugged.
The AIKS chief has also demanded that the working of madrassas should be probed. These, his letter emphasises, should either be modernised or banned. Yet another demand from MK Kaw: All organisations suspected of complicity with Pakistan should be banned and not allowed to sprout again under some other name.
And the letter also emphasised: "Above all, the image of India should be given a face over. It should emerge as a strong, vibrant and self-reliant country, fully capable of looking after its security interests and protecting its territory and people against any foreign or internal enemies". The concluding paragraph os the letter: "Mr Prime Minister, if you are able to safeguard your country and fulfil your oath to the Constitution, we the people of India will give you the coveted prize of our love, affection and respect. This would be a more glittering prize, anyday".
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