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| UN clarification ‘insignificant’ | | Is Kashmir issue losing sheen? | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 21: Clarification issued by staff of United Nation (UN) might have brought sigh of relief for Kashmiri separatist leaders but if weighed in economic parlance, issue is seemingly losing sheen in the international political scene.
For the illogical and economically disastrous moves of so-called Kashmiri separatist leaders, Kashmir is being looked more as India’s internal problem. It is in this context that despite vehement appeals of separatist leaders including firebrand separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, US President Barrack Obama did not make a mention of Kashmir during his recent visit to India.
Newspapers might have churned certain stories to indicate President Obama’s concern towards Kashmiris but his public speeches; broadcasted live across the globe had no words of sympathy for those who lost their kith and kin during the last three months of turmoil in Kashmir valley. The turmoil which for most part was being looked as an effort of Kashmiri separatist leaders to force Obama to talk Kashmir with India failed to achieve its much desired objective.
In the international arena, economics and terrorism have of late become the only two tools for weighing importance or inconsequentiality of an issue. World has unequivocally rejected religious fanaticism and has made it a point to vehemently condemn, criticize and deplore places where it is still preached. Ironically, Kashmir has become one such place where religious fanaticism is taking roots.
Identity may still be secular since no Amarnath Yatri was attacked, beaten or killed during the turmoil hit two month long Yatra but fear psychosis which forced several Kashmir pandit and Sikh organizations to knock at the doors of Syed Ali Shah Geelani was enough for the world bodies to stop looking at Kashmir as an issue of human suffering. Infact, the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits whether forced or self –imposed had laid the foundations for fundamentalists to prosper.
Ten years after being thrown out of their birthplace (read year 2000), Kashmiri separatist leaders did began crying at the top of their voice with folded hands, pleading Kashmiri Pandits to come back. They realized that the seemingly communal image of Kashmir as projected by exiled Kashmiri Pandit intellectuals had failed impress entire international community and they felt the need making their so called struggle secular.
They held several marathon meetings with Kashmiri Pandits, visited their camps across the country and pleaded them to return but to no avail. Generational shift had widened and Kashmiri Muslim youth had adapted themselves to society wherein the idea of coexistence and cultural bondages had vanquished. Same could be said about exiled and heart broken Kashmiri Pandit youth.
Kashmiri separatist leaders should have seen this as a serious development and made valiant efforts to rebuild burnt bridges of trust and faith between the two communities in the early years of the migration of Kashmiri Pandits. But for the manner in which they were hogging the limelight in the early years of turmoil, they decided against calling the Kashmiri Pandits back to their homes.
“Azadi” seemed few yards away from Lal Chowk. Nothing was consequential. Kashmiri separatists were calling the shots and for them, Kashmiri Pandits were a non-entity. Young Turks with guns in their hands had decided against hearing any saner element. Kashmir kept burning for years together and when the international community took cognizance of the issue, original inhabitants had gone missing.
Kashmir had become a Muslim dominated region with several dominant separatists talking of making it a theocratic state and other opining about aligning with Pakistan. The flag of state was chosen purely on religious lines and the manner, in which Jammu region which has mix of hindu-muslim population was ignored, none in the international arena had any doubt in Kashmir being turned into another Afghanistan within days of being granted what the separatists term “Azadi”.
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