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| Appointing Habibullah as J&K Governor would be dangerous | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 19: If what appeared in a national daily on the edit page on Saturday is correct, then the state is doomed and the nation ruined. The case in point is the information given by a well-known columnist in his column "Ride out the storm" that the "UPA Government has sounded out Wajahat Habibullah for the job of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. " According to him, Habibullah may take over as Jammu and Kashmir Governor anytime after September. Chief Information Commissioner Habibullah is retiring on September 30.
Ironically, the writer has hailed Habibullah and said that "he understands the Kashmir question better than many others", that "he has a lot to contribute to the discourse on Jammu and Kashmir" and that "in particular, his paper of 2004, written while he was a fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C, is worth reading for an at once clear-headed and sensitive portrayal of Jammu and Kashmir's complexities, for lessons to learn and ideas to consider, and for hope in a time of grimness." This means the columnist has endorse the suggestion that Habibullah should be appointed as the Jammu and Kashmir Governor.
The writer not only hails Wajahat Habibullah, who is worse than the late Jinnah, an ardent believer in the pernicious two nation theory that divided India on communal lines in 1947 and resulted in the cold-blooded murder of millions of people, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims included, and rape, pillage and displacement of population, but also hails Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. He says that "with the arrival of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as Chief Minister, the local government had a certain street credibility" and that "early conversation on the nature and impact of the 'peace dividend', provided India and Pakistan began working towards some sort of an arrangement that envisaged open borders, free trade and economic cooperation between the two Kashmirs, was beginning."
The columnist's praise for the Mufti is understandable. If he could hail the Jinnah in Habibullah, he has every reason to praise the Mufti. Why can't he eulogize the Mufti, a staunch believer in the concept of self-rule that drives Jammu and Kashmir away from India, gives legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on communalism, empowers Pakistan to exercise co-equal sovereign powers with New Delhi in Jammu and Kashmir, demilitarizes the state and enslaves the non-Muslim minorities in the state? After all, Mufti belongs to the same school of thought that divides and not unites the people. It would be too much to say that this writer is not aware of the doubtful credentials of Mufti. He is aware of his role when he was the Chief Minister and during the Amarnath land row. He knows that it was the Mufti who opposed increase in the duration of the Amarnath pilgrimage, as also the decision of the government to handover a small piece of land at Baltal for creating some facilities for the pilgrims on a temporary basis during the pilgrimage period. But, it appears, this columnist doesn't attach any importance to what the Mufti did when in power and what he and his party have been doing after being out of power to wreck the Indian state and promote separatism, communalism and militancy in Kashmir.
Significantly, however, his column does vindicate the stand of those who accuse the BJP and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of bartering the national interests to please Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir whose one-point agenda is to segregate Jammu and Kashmir from India and destroy and dismember India. It was the BJP-led NDA Government that had started the so-called peace process with Pakistan and it was designed to enable the Kashmiri separatists and their mentor Pakistan to achieve what they failed to achieve thus far. The BJP-led NDA Government would have tinkered with Indian sovereignty to accommodate Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists, had the Indian electorate given the BJP another mandate to rule India.
Anyway, what the columnist says about the nature of relations between the India of Vajpayee and Pakistan of President General Pervez Musharraf. He says, " In 2003 and 2004, nudged by the George W Bush Administration and by the fact that both Atal Bihari Vajpayee in India and Gen Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan were unchallenged in their leadership of their national governments, India and Pakistan began what appeared to be a genuine composite dialogue on the status of Jammu and Kashmir and other issues." It may be mentioned that this columnist (Ashok Malik) is a sympathizer of the BJP. He also enjoys good rapport with the RSS top echelons. Hence, what he says is more credible and what he says established that the BJP says one thing in public and does exactly the opposite behind the scene. (To be continued) |
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