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| Separatists keen to keep Kashmir issue alive | | | | Over the years separatists in the valley, besides Islamabad and its allies, have been treating the UN resolution on Kashmir, providing for holding a plebiscite for determining the wishes of the people of the state, highly sacrosanct. During the last over 50 years political leaders and pro-Pakistan elements have been seen swearing in the name of UN resolution. They have been blaming India for not implementing the resolution without knowing that Pakistan has been responsible for its nonimplementation after it failed to fulfill one of the clauses under which Islamabad had to withdraw its troops from its occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir. These separatists and pro-Pak forces were not ready to think of any other solution to the Kashmir issue except for the implementation of the UN resolution. Even when New Delhi opened the channels of dialogue with Islamabad Pakistan would plead for a negotiated settlement of the Kashmir issue without abandoning its demand for the implementation of the UN resolution. And these very separatists in the Kashmir valley do not seem to be perturned over r eports that the UN has delinked the Jammu and Kashmir issue from the list of disputes. Within hours of the release of this report, notwithstanding the fact that Pakistani establishment has described it as an error, the separatists no longer treat the UN resolution sacrosanct. "UN resolution or no resolution Kashmir will continue to be a major problem between India and Pakistan," is the common refrain in Kashmir among the separatists and pro-Pak elements. These forces are not ready to believe that in the absence of the UN support Kashmir will cease to be a dispute.On one hand various organisations, pledging support to the ongoing Kashmiri struggle for Azadi, have been urging the UN to play a key role in resolving the Kashmir issue, failing which peace in the south Asian region could get shattered, on the other they are not ready to treat Kashmir issue as a closed chapter after the UN did not include Jammu and Kashmir in the list of disputes. There was an outcry in Kashmir and Pakistan when the former UN secretary General, Kofi Annan, declared a few years ago that the UN resolutions on Kashmir had become obsolete. There is a cry over the latest stand of the UN headquarters on the Kashmir issue but it does not seem to have unnerved the valley based separatists. These sparatists believe that the Kashmir issue has assumed the dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan since 1948. They argue that the dispute has remained alive not because of the UN resolution of 1948 but because of the political history of the subcontinent. They are of the view that had not Kashmir been a dispute Islamabad and New Delhi would have been natural allies and friends and the 63-year old animosity between the two neighbours is only because of the Kashmir dispute. This way the separatists and the pro-pak elments in the valley and elsewhere are not prepared to accept that the Kashmir issue will cease to be a dispute in the absence of the UN support. The US based Kashmir Cyber Inftifada Group, headed by Mahnoor Khan, has urged the UN to play its role in settling the Kashmir dispute which was key to peace in the entire South Asian region. These pro-Pak fores in Kashmir and elsewhere in the world are not prepared to accept that in the absence of the UN support to its resolutions the Kashmir issue ceases to be a dispute, atleast between the two major nuclear countries of India and Pakistan. It depends on the convenience of the separatists and the pro-Pak forces.It is convenient for them to rake up implementation of the UN resolution on Kashmir. It is equally convenient to them to attach least importance to the UN resolutions on Kashmir, depending on the stand and the postures the world body adopts. And when the UN resolution calls for holding a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir the world body, according to Kashmiri separatists, has teeth that can bite. If the UN treats its resolutions on Kashmir obsolete separatists immediately declare "the UN teeth cannot bite. It can,at the most, kiss." These separatists are not ready to treat Kashmir issue a closed chapter.It is because of their realisation that once the Kashmir issue ceased tobe a dispute they (separatists) will have no goods to sell on their shops. In fact the very issue of Kashmir has helped them the keep their shops open. |
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