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| Who the interlocutors in J&K must meet to know the truth | | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 20: Interlocutors on J&K, including Dileep Padgaonkar, who was once a member of the Ram Jethmalani's Kashmir Committee that worked for the implementation of the Pakistani President Pevez Musharraf's anti-India 4-point Kashmir solution; Radha Kumar, a votary of self-rule with some changes here and there; and M. M. Ansari, Central Information Commissioner, are likely to visit the state in this very week. They would visit the state ascertain the views of all kinds of people, including separatists, before recommending ways and means aimed at resolving the "Kashmir problem" and restoring peace and normality in the militant and separatist-infested Kashmir Valley. It is imperative on their part to meet with and listen to the woeful tales of those who are the victims; who are the real sufferers; and who need to be accorded a special treatment considering their night of discontent and despair.
Who these interlocutors must meet to find the truth and understand the nature of the "Kashmir problem." They should meet the genuine representatives of the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, who have been living in the refugee camps in different parts of Jammu province and elsewhere in the country since more than two decades. They should meet them because they are the victims of the Pakistani-sponsored terrorism and Kashmiri communalists whose demands range from merger with Pakistan to independence to autonomy to self-rule, all manifestations of their communal approach to J&K. The interlocutors must start the parleys with the representatives of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus before meeting the separatists and protagonists of autonomy and self-rule because they know the whole truth, as also because they represent a community that suffered at the hands of Kashmiri separatists and the so-called mainstream Kashmiri leadership to the extent that their community was left with no other option but to quit their original habit in 1990 to become refugees in their own motherland and suffer untold miseries.
A meeting between the interlocutors and the representatives of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus would surely help the former understand that the bottom-line of all the Kashmiri leaders, including the so-called mainstream and separatist, is secession, that those who are preaching secession from India are the ones who have been ruling the roost since October 1947 and that the ongoing movement in Kashmir is based on falsehood and politics of deceit and emotional blackmail. Such a meeting would also help the interlocutors understand that the Kashmiri leadership stands for a regressive, intolerant and exclusivist ideology and that the ongoing secessionist movement in the Kashmir Valley is the fall-out of the Muslim identity politics being played in Kashmir.
Besides, a meeting between the interlocutors and representatives of the displaced community of Kashmiri Hindus would help the former understand the social composition of the ongoing secessionist movement in the Valley and reach a conclusion that it is basically a movement engineered by the well-entrenched, articulate, all powerful and prosperous Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis. The former would surely come to know that it is a movement with which an overwhelming majority of the Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims (all Sunnis) and the Shiite Muslims, who together with the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, Sikhs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Kashmir, including the Pathowari-speaking Muslims, constitute almost 40 per cent of the Kashmir Valley's population, have nothing to do. These are the communities that have, like the Kashmiri Hindus and the miniscule minority of Sikhs in the Valley, have consistently suffered enormous political, economic and social losses at the hands of the Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis, who control everything in Kashmir; who control every institution in the Kashmir Valley; who dominate all the economic institutions in the Valley; and who, actually, dominate the state's polity and economy despite the fact that they constitute only 28 per cent of the state's population.
After meeting the representatives of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus, the interlocutors should meet the suffering Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley. The Kashmiri Hindus quit their homes and hearts in January-April 1990 to escape their physical liquidation at the hands of the fanatics and to save their culture and religion. The Sikhs in Kashmir, whose number is approximately 50,000, are also on the verge of migration. They are likely to quit Kashmir anytime and the reasons are the same: The fanatics expelled the Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley because they refused to join the anti-India movement; the Sikhs, too, have refused to join the anti-India struggle. The persecuted and humiliated Sikhs, like the displaced and persecuted Kashmiri Hindus, are men on the spot. They know what has been happening in the Kashmir Valley and what is the nature of the ongoing movement in Kashmir. It is incumbent on the part of the interlocutors to meet them and to listen to them and to find out truth so that reach a right conclusion and inform the Union Government about the ground realities in the Kashmir Valley, the trouble spot. (To be continued) |
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