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Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 16: The amnesty proposal,which Delhi was preparing in consultation with the National Conference led Government,could prove a double edged weapon against Pakistan.Political analysts and security experts are of the view that if Islamabad agreed to accept India's demand for allowing those kashmiri youths,who had gone for arms training in occupied Kashmir,willing to return to the valley without weapons it would lend evidence to India's 20-year long charge that Pakistani agencies had helped the Kashmiri youths to receive arms training in camps set up across the LOC.Hitherto Islamabad has been consistent that it has been simply providing moral,diplomatic and political support to people of Kashmir.
Once these kashmiri youths were allowed to return to the valley it would confirm that agencies across the LOC had been providing them military training and support.And the moment all these 2,000 to 3,000 Kashmiri youths returned to the valley Islamabad will have no evidence in support of its contention that some Kashmiris had crossed the LOC after they were subjected to atrocities by the Indian security forces.This way the Pakistani agencies had been using these Kashmiri youths as show case on Indian repression in Kashmir.After all the Kashmiris returned to the valley without weapons it could be construed as willingness on the part of the misguided youths to join the national mainstream
These experts said that in case Pakistan refused to accept India's demand for permission to these Kashmiri youths to return to the valley parents of these youths,camping across the LOC,and their relations and friends may be forced to harbour anti-Pakistan sentiments.They would rightly believe that the National Conference leadership had agreed to grant general amnesty to these youths but the chances for their leading lives in peace were scuttled by Islamabad.
In addition to this it is to be seen whether leaders of various separatist groups,based in Muzaffarabad,including Syed Salahuddin will accept amnesty from India.Will they return to Srinagar ?Possibilities of such an alternative are remote because once they land in Srinagar they would be reduced to nonentities while in Muzaffarabad they have been able to run successfully their political shops.They have been acting as the political face of militants.In the past these leaders,including Syed Slahuddin have been supporting Pakistan's case in Kashmir.While some of them have been favouring Kashmir's incorporation with Pakistan others have been harping on the state's Azadi.This suits Islamabad because these anti-India stance was being adopted by those Kashmiri youths who have been camping in occupied Kashmir during the last 20 years.Hence there are remote possibilities for their return to Srinagar on the basis of valid travel documents.Some of them may
travel to Srinagar via Nepal because some agencies across the LOC have assisted a number of Kashmiri youths to travel by air to Nepal fromwhere they returned to Kashmir by train and buses.
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