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| Panun Kashmir holds seminar on ‘Quiet Diplomacy-The Nationalists Concern’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 22: Panun Kashmir today organized seminar on the topic ‘Quiet Diplomacy-The Nationalist Concerns’ here today at Press Club of Jammu as a campaign aims to educate the people of Jammu and Kashmir dimensions of the engagement of Govt of India with Pakistan, separatists.
The main speakers in the Seminar were Prof M K Teng, distinguished political scientist of the State and Head of the Advisory Committee of Panun Kashmir, M M Khajuria former DGP of J&K State, Prof Virender Gupta President of Jammu State Morcha, Prof. Dipanker Sengupta of the Department of Economics, Jammu University, and Dr. Ajay Chrungoo, Chairman of Panun Kashmir and Prof Hari Om.
To start with the occasion Prof M.K. Teng in his inaugural address compared the protracted engagement of Govt. of India with the separatists in the State with the Cabinet Mission Plan.
He said, “Whatever the motivations of Govt, of India, the dialogue process with separatists in the State by implication is gradually leading towards building a separate Muslim sphere of influence on the territory of India”.
“The Musharraf plan actually aims at a defacto control of Pakistan over the Muslim majority areas of Jammu and Kashmir which in ten years time will be converted into dejure control”, he added
Former DGP M.M. Khajuria said that ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ would be a good option if the parties engaged by the government enjoyed overwhelming support across the board. He said, ‘Hurriyat. do not have these attributes. On its own, Hurriyat (M) has a tiny constituency in parts of Kashmir. Its bloated stature was entirely due to Pak patronage whose agenda it has been seeking to implement”, Khajuria stated, raising the issue of taking other stakeholders aboard.
Prof. Dipankar Sengupta described the ‘Quiet Dialogue’ as premature and wrongly conceived and said the dialogue process gives an impression that a solution of the Jammu and Kashmir problem is being imposed over the people of state ignoring the vast majority of the people of the State.
Prof. Virender Gupta urged the Govt, of India to define the parameters which are guiding its talks with the separatists.
Prof. Hari Om in his speech stressed that Govt, of India in its dealings in the state seems to behave in a manner in which the British Govt, behaved before the independence of India particularly the way it has catapulted the separatist forces as the sole arbiters of the destiny of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairman Panun Kashmir Dr Ajay Chrungoo opined that Quiet Dialogue with the separatists has a potential of rendering the national interests peripheral to the settlement of the issues in Jammu and Kashmir. He demanded of the Govt, of India to make permanent reversal of genocide of Kashmiri Hindus as cardinal principle of any engagement to arrive at a solution. He stressed that creation of Panun Kashmir with Union Territory Status has become an imperative to ensure the defeat of fundamentalist’s forces and upholding the unity and secular vision of the nation.
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