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Kashmiri separatists seem to be a more confused lot than they were a year ago.In fact the level of confusion in the separatist camps is the result of not only the growing tussle between the hardliners,led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani,and the moderates,headed by Molvi Umar Farooq,but also of factional feuds within various separatist organisations.During the last over a year each side is trying to score over the other side.What seems to have accentuated the problem is the lack of unity.Molvi Umar Farooq has tried his best to forge unity between the two main factions of the Hurriyat Conference.In fact he has been after the process of unifying the Hurriyat Conference during the last over two years. At one stage he was assisted by Shabir Ahmed Shah,Chief of Democratic Freedom Party.But despite these efforts unity eluded the separatists because Geelani has been setting some preconditions which have not been acceptable to the moderates.Whatever may be the
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even the establishment in Pakistan has been pleading for unity among the separatists.Even when knowing that neither faction of the Hurriyat Conference represents majoity of people in Jammu and Kashmir Islamabad and other agencies in Pakistan have been consistent in cultivating these separatists.The reason.Islamabad knows it fully well that if not anything else these separatists could prove of a bigger nuisance value than the guntoting youths.Islamabsd is aware that separatists,as political face of the ongoing struggle for Kashmir liberation, can be instrumental for motivating the US or any other super power to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.Both Pakistan and the separatists would have achieved the goal of securing a third party intervention had not Delhi conveyed to the US and other countries, its firm opposition to it.Even the venerable and most well read separatist like Syed Ali Shah Geelani is so much confused that on one hand he
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been pleading for the resumption of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan on the other he has announced that any solution other than a plebiscite for resolving the Kashmir issue would not be acceptable to the people of Kashmir.He sounds strange.He does not represent the entire population of Kashmir.He does not represent even the aspirations of all the Kashmiris.As such he is nobody to prescribe a single way for solving the Kashmir issue.If he says that a solution found by India and Pakistan,during talks,which was different from plebiscite,as provided in the UN resolution on Kashmir,it will not be acceptable to him and to the people of the valley why does he then favour resumption of the Indo-Pak dialoogue ? As a senior politician Geelani needs to know that when two sides talk on a ticklish or vexed issue they do not discuss only one solution.During the talks many solutions are debated and either the talks remain inconclusive or end in a
deadlock or a solution is hammered out.That Geelani is more confused than he was earlier is evident from the way he,known for his pro-Pak bias,rejected Gen.Parvez Musharraf's four-point plan on Kashmir.No doubt Delhi had rejected it but other Kashmiri separatists had supported and coincidentally PDP's self-rule concept is closer to Musharraf's plan than to the autonomy plan of the National Conference.As long as separatists continue to be plagued by confusion they would be instrumental in enhancing the level of political instability and uncertainity in Jammu and Kashmir.
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