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| Kashmir Scene -- IV Separatists accept defeat, ask intellectuals to guide them | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 8: What were the main highlights of what Yasin Malik said in the seminar? The major highlights were (1) "we have failed to present the Kashmir's case and we have failed to convince the Indian society"; (2) "we have only given beating and graveyards"; (3) "it's time for retrospection"; (4) "90 per cent of our intellectuals are working for money and are living on scholarship and they have abandoned the society"; (5) "we have failed to address the external and Indian dimension of the Kashmir issue and the "intellectual class (needs to) shape the external and Indian dimension of the issue"; and (6) "they (Indians) do not want us to go beyond Jammu."
As for the major highlights of what Syed Ali Shah Geelani said on January 5 in a seminar; these were (1) "the separatist camp is divided and it hardly matter"; (2) "we worked together for ten long years but failed to achieve anything"; (3) "the UN resolutions on Kashmir are still relevant but they could not be implemented due to countries with veto power because they use this power against our demand to right to self-termination due to bias"; (4) these five world powers are biased against Muslims and they favour India"; (5) "world needs an impartial body to settle disputes to which Muslims are parties"; (6) "we want right to self-determination for all, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists"; (7) "Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) must come forward and help resolve the Kashmir issue in collaboration with Pakistan"; and (8) "we will not accept anything short of right to self-determination."
And, finally, what were the main highlights of what Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram said on January 4? These were (1) "the three-month-long violence in Jammu and Kashmir last year was unfortunate and deeply regrettable and major decline in violence there has raised hopes of a settlement this year"; (2) "the appointment of interlocutors has dramatically changed the situation in Kashmir"; and (3) "the interlocutors have changed the discourse and have been able to persuade a number of stakeholders to offer suggestions for a political solution.''
What does all this suggest? It suggests several things. It suggests (1) the separatists like Mirwaiz, Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik have virtually accepted the defeat and they are not averse to the idea of holding a dialogue with New Delhi; (2) Mirwaiz and Malik are not very happy with the Kashmiri intellectuals because they did not advise them or guide them and because they did not pinpoint the shortcomings and weaknesses of the movement; (3) some of the separatists have realized that their movement has only brought death and destruction and that it is time for the separatists for all hues to work out a new strategy; (4) the chances of unity among the separatists like Geelani and Mirwaiz are too remote and that there is the possibility of a clash between their supporters and followers; (5) the separatists are vertically divided as far as the role of the United Nations in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, with one faction demanding disbanding of this international body and the other describing it as relevant with the rider that it could deliver if the five veto powers abandon their anti-Muslim approach; (6) it's not really Pakistan, but China and the United States which can help resolve the Kashmir issue and enable the Kashmiri separatists achieve what they want (right to self-determination); (7) Kashmiri separatists of all shades of opinion want a solution that accepts the majority view, that dismisses the people of Jammu and Ladakh as irrelevant and that keeps the state united; (8) the extremists like Mirwaiz are prepared to accept the Musharraf formula (demilitarization, joint-mechanism, shared sovereignty and irrelevant Line of Control) as an interim arrangement; (9) separatists like Abdul Ghani Bhat have finally realized that time has come to call spade a spade and expose those responsible for bloodshed and incessant strikes in Kashmir, as also take on those who put the common Kashmiris on the road to confrontation with New Delhi without making adequate preparation; (10) intifada cannot lead to any solution and intifada simply left over one hundred Kashmiris dead and hundreds others injured; (11) while the likes of Mirwaiz seen prepared to reach their ultimate goal in stages, the likes of Geelani not prepared to deviate from the path they have been treading, particularly since 1990, notwithstanding the collapse of the intifada; and so on. (To be continued) |
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