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| Govt proposes Geelani oppose | | | Whatever the Government of India proposes the Kashmiri separatists oppose that.For the last several months it has been a battle of wits between the
central Government and the separatists.While the centre has been keeping on
testing with one experiment or the other the separatists,especially the hardliners,continue to be inflexible.The hardliners,headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani,continue to harp on five conditions which they want the Government to fulfill before they come forward for participating in the process of dialogue.In fact right from 2003,when the Government of India initiated dialogue with the separatists,the hardliners had opted to stay away from the process of talks.That attitude does not seem to have undergone any change.During the last over five months Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh,had been reiterating his willingness to resume t alks with all shades of opinion,including those who have been sittting on the other side of the fence,provided they eschewed violence.The hardliners have been consistent in rejecting any form of dialogue unless the Government of India accepted Kashmir being a disputed territory,agreed to hold a plebiscite in the state,release all the
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people and withdraw troops and the AFSPA.It is in the context of this line of approach that the hardliners announced that they will not meet members of the All Party delegation who visited Kashmir recently.They,however,relented when some members of the delegation drove to the houses of Geelani,Molvi Umar and Mohd.Yasin Malik.The two sides met and there was not trace of bitterness.There was hope and excitement in public and Government circles.This excitement was shortlived when the separatists described the Prime Minister's 8-point paackage as an eyewash.The separatists were in no mood to relent.It was followed by appointment of three interlocuters for the purpose of holding talks with all shades of opinion,including the separatists.Yes,the separatists do not seem satisfied with the members,M.M.Ansari,Dileep Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar.They may dish out a number of arguments in support of their contention but in reality even if some prominent political
leaders,besides senior cabinet ministers,would have been included in the team the separatists could not have changed their attitude.There are other political leaders in Jammu who do not seem to be happy with the composition of the team on the plea that the members may not be knowing anything about the geography and terrain and the problem in Jammu and Kashmir.They need to be reminded that Padgaonkar,as a senior Journalist with the Times of India,may have written more and exhaustive writeups on various aspects of the Kashmir problem than any other columnist from Jammu and Kashmir.He was a member of the Kashmir committee led by Ram Jethmalani and as such he is already introduced to the separatists.It is so because the seeparatists refused to talk to K.C.Pant,who had been appointed an intrlocuter years ago.Ansari is not only an economist but an educationist as he had remained associatd with the Hamdard University and the IGNOU.Radha Kumar has ben
associated with back-channel efforts on reaching out to Kashmiri separatists.Hence all the three have a standing of their own.The task of the interlocuters is to indicate the way forward and the confidence building measures that were needed to be taken in hand for tackling the internal dimensions of the Kashmir problem.Separatists seeem to have been encouraged by the massive response they received from people to their calls for shutdown and protest rallies.No doubt particiption of separatists in the process of dialogue could lead to softening of the sit uation their inittial attitude need not discourage either the centre or the team of interlocuters.Attempt need to be made to rope in moderates among the separatists and once it was done the harliners could be isolatd.
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