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| Terrorist strikes- a rebuff to Mufti | | | Ironically enough a day after former Chief Minister and PDP patron,
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed reiterated the party demand for demilitarization
of J&K as well as strongly pleaded for government of India to involve
militants in the negotiations for restoration of peace in the state,
the terrorists struck in a big way in Srinagar, killing 8 persons,
including 5 tourists from Bengal and injuring over 40 others. Grenades
were lobbed at six different places within a period of three hours,
targeting mainly the tourists from outside the state who came to
Kashmir on the assurances of the Chief Minister and other
functionaries of the state government that the conditions are
perfectly normal in the valley and the lives of the visitors are safe.
Not only this but these enemies of peace, with whom Mufti pleads for
the Indian government to hold negotiations with, for bringing back
peace in the troubled J&K state struck on an unprecedented large scale
in the commercial capital of the country, Mumbai killing about 140
people and injuring over 400 others. The explosives were triggered
almost simultaneously in the running local trains near different
stations of Mumbai when a large number of people were traveling by
these. Whether it is a co-incidence or a well planned strategy on the
part of the terrorists to strike on a single day in the capital of
Jammu and Kashmir and the commercial capital of the country. Whether
these dastardly acts are the handiwork of same module of terrorists or
different outfits have been responsible, will be known only after the
thorough enquiry is held. It is enough to here to state that such
pleadings by Mufti and his party, who claim to be in the mainstream
and interested in return of peace in the state is absurd, under the
conditions prevailing. Not only the terrorists, but even the over
grown secessionists like hard core Sayeed Geelani's group of
secessionists have repeatedly spurned the offers of government of
India for talks. Even the so called moderate faction of Hurriyat, led
by Maulvi Omer is willing to talk with the top Indian leadership,
dictating their conditions including acceptance by the government of
India the Hurriyat being the sole representative of the voice of
Kashmiris. Under these circumstances how can the central government
involve the separatists in talks? Does Mufti want the government of
India and the Prime Minister to lye prostrate or bend on his knees to
beg the militants to come for negotiation with the government of
India? Mufti, who himself headed the state government for three years
between November 2002 and November 2005 could nor bring the militants
on the negotiation table, despite the fact that the government of
India had put full faith in him and responded positively to all his
suggestions, with regard to return of peace in the state. Mufti will
be well advised to stop playing to gallery and playing politics with
his own coalition partner, the Congress, in his bid to consolidate his
vote bank among the separatists in Kashmir. In the interest of the
fast return of peace in the state as well as for the solidarity of the
country and welfare of people, Mufti will be well advised to
co-operate in the efforts of the Central government as well as the
government of J&K and the security forces to break the bone of
violence mongers and enemies of the peace. Only after that these
elements can be called to the negotiation table.
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