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| Interlocutors have walked into the Kashmiris' dangerous trap | | Problem communal, not political | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 15: Interlocutors on J&K Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari have walked into the Kashmiri leadership's dangerous trap. It is clear. This became quite evident yesterday, when the votary of self-rule for J&K Radha Kumar, talked to the Kashmir-based reporters in Srinagar and asserted that the interlocutors would be ready with a "roadmap for solution (to the political problem) within six to nine months." She disclosed that the roadmap would be based on "four points."
"The interlocutors have concluded four points of universal agreement from their 'preliminary' meetings with the people in Srinagar, Ganderbal, Baramulla, Uri and Bandipora. These include: 'Almost everyone wants a comprehensive lasting political solution to the Kashmir issue sooner rather than later and most people believe that it is the urgent pressing demand of present situation. Majority believes that political settlement is not possible without steps on ground that would prepare ground for dialogue; long duration of the conflict and uncertainty over the identity of Jammu and Kashmir combined with its division in 1947 has added complexity and new factors to the conflict; and almost everyone believes that way to resolve the problem is to recognise honour and dignity of all the concerned actors for peace. This was the point stressed over and over again...The points are the substance of their preliminary meetings with the people aimed at knowing what could be the political solution of the Kashmir issue and its roadmap," she, in fact, told reporters.
From what Radha Kumar told reporters in Srinagar it can be concluded at once that the interlocutors have decided to play with dangerous tools and go in for a formula that would unsettle everything in the state and help the Kashmiri separatists and extremists accomplish their anti-India designs, enslave the minorities in the state, which constitute nearly half of the state's population and occupy over 90 per cent of the state's geographical area, and reduce Jammu and Ladakh to the status of colonies of Kashmir. The assertion of Radha Kumar that the problem in Kashmir is "political" and the problem needs a political settlement should prove that these interlocutors, instead of applying their mind and examining the circumstances leading to the unrest in Kashmir, have thought it convenient to allow themselves be influenced by the vested interests in Kashmir and work out a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem strictly in accordance with those carrying on a relentless hate and break-India movement since decades.
Radha Kumar and other interlocutors, who have been making controversial and ridiculous statements ever since their appointment on October 13 last and creating additional difficulties for the country in the nation, know nothing about J&K. Had they know anything about the history of struggle in Kashmir, they would not have made such ridiculous statements. Or, should it be said that they know everything and that they are not speaking the truth because their whole objective is to accord legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism or two-nation theory.
There is no hesitation in saying that they know the nature of the Kashmir problem and that they are willfully ignoring the stark realities in the Valley in their desperate bid to prepare ground for the state's separation of India so that the extremists in Kashmir and the Pakistani establishment are appeased and won over. Their intentions are not noble. They are behaving more like the mercenaries behave and not putting in any effort to diagnose what ails Kashmir. They are even contradicting the bold stand of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who only on November 8 told the US president, Barack Husein Obama that "he was not afraid of discussing the K-issue" and that "Terrorism and dialogue with Pakistan could not go hand-in-hand."
It can be said that they are working under the direct guidance and control of the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, who complicated the whole situation last year, when he declared from the Srinagar soil that "Kashmir is a unique problem, Kashmir has a unique history and unique geography and unique problem needs a unique solution." Just compare what these interlocutors have been saying about Jammu and Kashmir with what the Union Home Minister, who has otherwise failed as the Home Minister, had been saying since last year and you would reach a conclusion that there is no fundamental difference among them. It was not for nothing that P Chidambaram came to the rescue of the-under-severe-attack- interlocutors for their irresponsible Srinagar statements on the nature of the Kashmir problem and relevance of Pakistan. Chidambaram had said that there was nothing wrong in what these interlocutors said.
The interlocutors had, it may be recalled, not only described Kashmir as a "dispute" and talked of "trilateral" talks between India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris, but had also suggested an amendment in the Indian Constitution to accommodate the Kashmiris' demand for "Azaadi." It also bears recalling that Padgaonkar had asked students of the Kashmiri University to get ready with a "roadmap for Azaadi" so that the same could be discussed during their next visit to Srinagar. (To be continued) |
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