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| 'NC’s AUTONOMY IS ONLY ABOUT ADMINISTRATIVE SET-UP' | | PDP'S SELF RULE WILL SOON COME IN A DOCUMENTED SHAPE: QARRA | |
Srinagar, Sept 13: Minister for Finance, Planning, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Ahmad Qarra on Wednesday stated that his party will soon present the "self-rule" proposal on Kashmir in a documented shape before the people and added the proposal encompasses the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir .
He, however, stayed away from mentioning the exact date of documentation.
In an exclusive interview with KIP, the first ever Finance Minister from Srinagar district dismissed the general perception that the self-rule slogan is vague.
"To begin with all slogans seem vague. All slogans raised in the entire sub-continent looked vague at the outset. Be it slogans like 'Quit India' or 'Two Nation Theory' (about the creation of Pakistan) but history is witness to the fact that these slogans, which initially looked vague and unattainable, got translated into a reality," he said.
Mr Qarra clarified that self-rule proposal does not challenge the sovereignty of either India or Pakistan but guarantees "economic, administrative and political self-reliance of entire Jammu and Kashmir including that of Pakistan administered Kashmir ".
Explaining the self-rule further Mr Qarra said: "Self-rule doesn't mean secession from Indian union, merger with any other country or independence of J&K but it is about sharing the sovereignty of both India and Pakistan to make our entire state self-reliant politically, economically and administratively."
He, however, added that the self-rule is also subject to "improvisation in changing circumstances".
Replying a question about how hopeful he was about achieving the goal of self-rule, he said: "In politics nothing is impossible and what apparently looks impossible in politics has to be made possible, and that is what is considered as political skill."
Sounding optimistic he said: "When Mufti Saheb gave slogan about re-opening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road (trans-LoC route) no one believed it will become a reality but it has. Initially many people ridiculed this slogan but now we have the road opened. We got to be optimistic about things we believe in."
Reacting to the pro-India National Conference's claim that internal autonomy was the viable solution to the Kashmir dispute, Mr Qarra said: "NC's autonomy is all about administrative set-up of Jammu and Kashmir . It (autonomy) doesn't speak about economic and political self-reliance of Jammu and Kashmir, and it is only about this part of Kashmir not the other one under the administration of Pakistan."
Mr Qarra said he was not critical of NC's autonomy proposal but considers it as a "component of self-rule".
He said that the self-rule will guarantee economic integration of Jammu and Kashmir so that both India and Pakistan have economic stakes here. |
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