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| Who funded the anti-India meet on Kashmir? | | PIPFPD CONVENTION | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 7: The so-called Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) organized a two-day annual national convention in the highly costly Hotel Ashok on December 4-5. The convention unanimously resolved that the "time has come for the governments in New Delhi and Islamabad as well as the leaders spearheading the resistance movement (read separatist and communal movement) in Jammu and Kashmir to make a break with the past, step forward and find a negotiated settlement of the dispute."
As for the president of the PIPFPD Manoranjan Mohanty, he in his presidential address, inter-alia, said: He was in complete accord with those who said that "Kashmir is not a territorial dispute between the two warring countries. It is also not a religious issue. It is a human problem which concerns the basic right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to determine their future…" One of the speakers said: "We have to go beyond the sovereignty issue." One of the speakers did talk some sense. He reportedly said: There was the "need to resolve internal problem i.e., inter-regional relations satisfying aspirations of all ethnic communities of the state in a federal and decentralized set up." All others, who represent none except themselves and the vested interests only spoke the language Pakistan, Kashmiri separatists, the so-called mainstream Kashmiri politicians and Maoists speak. The report on the convention suggests nothing else.
Thus, the message from the Hotel Ashok was loud and clear and the message was that New Delhi should give legitimacy to the politics of separatism, based on religious fanaticism, and concede the Kashmiri separatists' demand overlooking the country's sovereign interests.
Who took part in this convention? About 100 persons took part in it and some of them were from Pakistan like Chowdhary Muneer and Madiha Gowhar and from different parts of India, including Kashmir, and Jammu like Manoranjan Mohanty, Aga Ashraf Ali and many others, mostly from Jammu and a few from Delhi. The question is: who funded this convention. It was a very costly affair. This scribe knows Mohanty very well. He was Professor of Political Science in the Delhi University not-so-long-ago. He is an honest man and a supporter of Kashmiri separatists and Maoist terrorists. He could not fund this convention. The Vice-president of PIPFPD, who belongs to Jammu, couldn't organize such a costly affair. Then, who funded this two-day convention? Who paid for those who came from Pakistan and other parts of the country?
It would be too much to say that the president, vice-president and other office-bearers of this so-called peace forum contributed from their own pockets and organized this convention the purpose of which was obviously to raise the spirits of the Kashmiri separatists, further the Pakistani cause in Jammu and Kashmir, glorify the ongoing separatist movement in Kashmir and defend the indefencible - the savagery of the Kashmiri separatists. Again, it would be too much to say that those who came from different parts of the country and from Pakistan themselves paid for their board and lodging. It never happens. Those who organize such events alone arrange money and pay for everything.
Then, who funded this costly event? New Delhi or its agencies or someone else. It is time for the agencies to look into this aspect and inform the general public who funds such patently separatist and communalist-friendly events. People want to know it. |
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