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| For Sheikh Nazir's information | | Sher-e-Kashmir exiled his opponents to PaK | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 28: The National Conference General Secretary, Sheikh Nazir today said that Sher-e-Kashmir was the first to seek opening up of all the routes along the LoC to enable the divided families to meet. "Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah put forth this demand in 1964 during his Pakistan visit", he said.
Nazir further said that Sher-e-Kashmir wanted the people from both parts of Kashmir to "meet for finding a long lasting solution to the dispute." While the demand for opening up of routes along the LoC could be true, Sher-e-Kashmir, Nazir knows, never wanted the people on either side of the LoC to meet. According to most of the historians, Sher-e-Kashmir urged Jawahar Lal Nehru to accept UN cease-fire when the Indian army had chased the raiders away to the spot where the LoC exists today. He wanted to keep the `peace loving people of Kashmir' away from `war mongers' of Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Poonch.
On the contrary, the painful process of exiling dissidents started the day Sher-e-Kashmir became the Emergency Administrator of the state. One by one, he exiled his opponents to Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) through Uri in Kashmir and Suchetgarh in Jammu. Prominent among them include, Chowdhury Ghulam Abbas, Allah Rakha Sagar, Aga Showkat Ali, GN Gilkar, Abdul Gani Renthu and many others.
The phenomenon of `pushing back' people continued up to GM Sadiq's regime. Thousands of families have been suffering to this day. Reyaz Ahmad, a JK Bank employee saw his father for the first time after completing his BA in 1983. Abdul Ghani Renthu's son and daughter visited their place of birth in Srinagar in 2007.
Saa'd-ud-Din Shawl, a prominent activist and his associate were exiled by the Dogra ruler in 1924 for presenting a memorandum to the Viceroy during his visit to Srinagar. However, they were pardoned by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1925 when he ascended to the throne. An `autocrat' takes just one year to pardon his opponents. But the democratically elected government has indexed, rather blacklisted 75000 families. They can never get a passport. They can never go out to see their relatives on that side of the divide. |
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