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Early Times Report
Jammu, February 6:-Amazingly when Delhi announced its willingness to reopen the channels of dialogue with Islamabad through a meeting between the two foreign secretaries, militant groups, operating in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, issued open threats saying that Jehad will continue till Kashmir was not liberated from the Indian control. Equally interesting is the way the organisers of the conference on Kashmir, held on Thursday in Muzaffarabad in connection with the Kashmir Solidarity Day, were allowed to use the platform for fulminating against India and that too at a time when Delhi had, after over one year, demonstrated flexibility by resuming talks with the Pakistani leaders.
Indications are that the conference was a Government staged affair notwithstanding the fact that it was in effect a show of Jamaat-uD-Dawa, which has been banned by Islamabad and the United States. It was so because the speakers at the conference wanted Islamabad not to create hurdles for Kashmiri fighters who wanted to achieve the goal of liberating Kashmir from the Indian occupation on their own. It sought Islamabad's political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri speaking freedom fighters. By saying this Islamabad controlled militants wanted to convey to the world that Pakistan Government was, instead of supporting Jihadis, creating hurdles in their way. But such announcements may not be plausible because during the last 20 years Pakistan has been providing logistic and military support to the militants on one hand and on the other it would simply talk of moral, political and diplomatic support to them.
Political pundits in Jammu say that had not Pakistan been providing material and military support to the militants it would not have been possible for several thousand rebels to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir with highly sophisticated weapons, ammunition and explosives. During the Thursday Conference on Kashmir, which was addressed by United Jehad Council Chief, Syed Salahuddin, a former ISI Chief Hamid Gul, Occupied Kashmir Assembly Speaker, Shah Ghulam Qadir and Jamaat-uD-Dawa leader, Abdur Rehman Makki, an impression had been generated that the ongoing "Jehad" in Jammu and Kashmir was being carried out by Kashmiris.
This is totally wrong because majority of militants, who have been operating in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 15 years, are foreign mercenaries. They are from Pakistan and occupied Kashmir and belong to Lashkar-i-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami. Even Hizbul Mujahideen, which at one time had only Kashmiri boys as its ecruits, had enrolled foreign mercenaries. In the beginning of the insurgency in Kashmir some foreign mercenaries had been brought from Sudan and Afghanistan.
A declaration adopted during the Conference said "if Pakistani rulers cannot help Kashmiris they should let the field open for Kashmiri militants instead of creating any obstacle in their way. "Here again the organisers wanted to convey to the American Government that the establishment in Islamabad and in Muzaffarabad had no hand in aiding and abetting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir watchers are of the opinion that the Declaration adopted during the conference on Kashmir was aimed at pressurizing Delhi for settling the Kashmir issue to the satisfaction of Pakistan. This is evident when it was announced at the conference that self-governance and demilitarisation "were not a substitute for the UN Security Council resolution. "It is again interesting that while on one hand the speakers at the conference demanded liberation of Kashmir from the "Indian control ", meaning thereby independence for Kashmir, on the other it has favoured implementation of the UN security Council resolution which provides for holding of a plebiscite. In the UN resolution there is no provision for "Azadi" for Jammu and Kashmir state.
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