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| World’s most beautiful prison’ becomes ‘India’s integral part’ for EU | | Europeans visit J&K to teach Mirwaiz, Yasin Malik a whole new Greek on Kashmir | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Nov 25: Plush with the artificially created euphoria in the vernacular Press over the Libyan leader Gaddafi’s observation on Kashmir and China’s stapled visas to some Kashmiris, Valley’s separatist leadership has been nosedived to an anti-climax with a never-before statement by a European Union delegation. At an inter-face with media here yesterday, members of the delegation called J&K “an integral part of India” and observed that the situation was returning to normality fast. It came in just six years of the EU delegation in Srinagar calling Kashmir “the world’s most beautiful prison”. Significantly, EU’s volte face also came when Chairman of Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was busy in telling the Kashmiris how there was “maslaa Kashmir kii goonj” all over the world. Perhaps more significantly, the Europeans exploded the myth of world support to Kashmiri separatists in presence of JKLF Chairman, Yasin Malik, whose face, understandably, turned red.
Change of heart in the West has not come overnight. In the last over 13 years, the Americans and the Europeans have exhausted their patience in teaching the Kashmiri secessionists how establishing the representative character in a democratic manner was fundamental in winning recognition to their leadership and cause. Gone are the days when one-dimensional generations in the Valley would take BBC as England and Voice of America as United States of America. The make-believe world from Nowhatta to Maisuma and Hyderpora has itself fragmented to the extent that there are now innumerable factions of all separatist alliances and their constituents---with just a couple of exceptions.
Much more than “one hundred thousand sacrifices”, Hurriyat and other conglomerates have forced their movement to rest on myths and fantasies. Even before 9/11, followed by blasts in London’s buses and trains, that made all non-Muslim nations as natural allies against the Islamist insurgencies, Kashmir’s separatist leadership had begun to see outward for “political, diplomatic and moral support”. Soon after Shabir Shah was dismissed on account of his infidelity of a meeting with the US Ambassador, the competition in rubbing the shoulders with the diplomats became grotesquely manifest in the Valley’s separatist camp. These diplomats---and their drivers---could not be too naïve to understand how Kashmir’s Mahatma Gandhis and Nelson Mandelas stole their relevance out of their fabulously arranged photo sessions with the foreigners.
Amid EU’s volte face, China too has thrown a dampener on the Valley’s separatist camp and withdrawn its “support” that had been exuberantly eulogized by men like Mr Geelani. Relying more on foreigners than your own people is often fraught with such consequences.
One-upmanship in the Valley’s separatist camp has betrayed itself from day one of the armed insurgency, or at least from the day of British Parliamentarian Coffman’s visit in 1990. It has been no fewer than internecine clashes among the guerrilla outfits that became the mark of identification for the Kashmiri separatist movement till its armed strength was neutralized within and without. Hurriyat reduced itself to just a postal address of the armed insurgents as it allowed them to capture entire space and never condemned any of the thousands of brutal killings they did , on varied persuasions, on the people they claimed to represent. Nobody expected them to be critical of those done on people of other communities. Perhaps all these people joined hands to teach their “leaders” a lesson of their life in the Assembly elections of 2008.
Yes, of course, this leadership has ironically got a lease of life at home in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s playing second fiddle to not only PDP but also to Hurriyat in the last 10 months, in disregard to the mandate he got in Assembly followed by Lok Sabha elections. He needs to be a resident of Srinagar to understand that the poor people in Valley buy newspapers to find SSRB and PSC notifications on government jobs not to read speeches of their discredited politicians. He would have to think why Yasin Malik has ceased to go on his weekly hunger strikes; why Kuldeep Nayar became sick of offering tumblers of juice to break such fasts; why, at last, Madhu Kishwar, wrote a ripper to the incorrigible JKLF Chairman; why Sajjad Lone contested elections; why USA and UK turned down visa to Mr Geelani; why the hardliner pro-Pakistan leader is not showing any inclination to visit that country.
All this being Greek to Chief Minister, who has no training in hypocritical politics, he is within his right to buy all of Mr Geelani’s phraseology---‘it’s a political, not an economic problem’---as he appears to be programmed to outsmart his mainstream rival, PDP, in the only language New Delhi has recognized in Kashmir
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