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| Molvi's call for unity may have no takers | | |
Chairman All Party Hurriyat Conference,Molvi Umar Farooq,has suggested to pro-freedom groups to unite so that the ongoing struggle for freedom could be taken to the logical conclusion.Are these so called pro-freedom groups willing to forge unity ?The question has deep implications because hitherto Kashmir has witnessed mushroom growth of separatist and fundamentalist groups which have opened their shops in the name of freedom
struggle.Many agencies have been playing their role in giving birth to new organisations and new militant outfits.Imagine during the first five years of militancy in the Kashmir valley(1989 and 1994) there were as many as 100 to 150 militant outfits.Even a one-man outfit would call the shots.And gradually the main outfits like Hizbul Mujahideen,Lashkar-i-Toiba,Jash-e-Mohammad,assimilated the small groups and by now the number of rebel outfits has declined to less than half a dozen.Against this the separatist and fundamentalist organisations mushroomed.Surprisingly the All Party Hurriyat Conference,which at one stage was considered to be a representative body of people of Kashmir,suffered a split between the hardliners and the moderates.During the last over seven years attempts were made to reunite the two main factions but without any success.The Hurriyat Conference suffered another setback when three major players,Mohd.Yasin Mailk of the JKLF,Sajjad
Lone of Peoples'Conference,and Shahbir Ahmed Shah of Democratic Freedom party quit the conglomerate.Shah later returned to the separatist amalgam.As such the Maulana's call for unity among pro-freedom forces may not evoke any response when even various separatist groups stand split in more than two factions.See what has happened to the Muslim Conference,the Peoples'League,the Peoples'Conference,the Democratic Freedom Party and so on.You have faction within factions in the separatist camps.A stage has come when separatist leaders are not ready to play a second fiddle to their party chief.Every leader considers himself as law unto himself.Not only this.Different agencies have tried to fund different outfits and organisations.Hence the heads of these organisations and outfits do not want to share these funds with a bigger group. Also,the agencies across the LOC do not want to place all their eggs in one basket as they fear that if the struggle was left
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the hands of one organisation or outfit that body could be won over by the Indian agencies once they release bigger financial aid.Islamabad believes that if there are a large number of separatist groups it is advantageous for Pak campaign against India on Kashmir.This is evident from the way Pakistan has given support to leaders of both the factions of the All Party Hurriyat Conference.It is an admitted fact that no separatist group can survive with material and political support from Pakistan and if Islamabad wanted to bring about unity among various separatist groups it could do so by stopping sending funds to those groups which were against unity.It befriended both the Molvi led and Geelani led factions of the Hurriyat Conference.Hence Molvi's call for unity will have no takers.(eom)
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