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| Kashmir Scene - V | | Separatists accept defeat, ask intellectuals to guide them | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 9: Some important questions. Why did Abdul Ghani Bhat speak out publicly and disclosed that Abdul Ahad Wani, Maulvi Farooq, Mohammad Sultan Bhat and Abdul Gani Lone were killed not by the Army and police, but by "our own men? Does he feel Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and others of their ilk have marginalized him or that he has been rendered irrelevant? Has he finally decided to adopt an aggressive posture against Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Pakistan and expose them for a larger cause? Or, has he finally realized that dialogue with New Delhi is the only way forward? Why did Mirwaiz and Malik publicly acknowledge that their movement has failed to achieve anything other than beating and graveyards? Have they finally accepted their defeat and reconciled to the fact that their strategy has failed and that it would be better to conclude a truce with New Delhi over Jammu and Kashmir? Have Mirwaiz and Malik come to the conclusion that the fall of General Pervez Musharaff has weakened their position? Have they come to realize that the present dispensation in Islamabad has abandoned them and gone close to Syed Ali Shah Geelani because of his insistence on the state's merger with Pakistan? Have they and others of their ilk realized that the militancy in Kashmir is on the decline or it is at its lowest ebb? Have they become vulnerable because they do not enjoy the kind of support they used to enjoy hitherto? Why did they attack Kashmiri intellectuals? Are Mirwaiz, Malik and Geelani working on a new strategy or have Mirwaiz and Malik adopted the kind of posture they adopted on January 2 in consultation with Geelani in order to facilitate a dialogue with New Delhi and create an environment that makes New Delhi endorse the Musharaff's four-point solution as a first step towards the last goal? Have Mirwaiz and Malik opened channels with New Delhi to obtain some political concession in order to tell the common Kashmiris that it is they who alone can hold their own and achieve no other Kashmiri leader has achieved thus far and that Geelani-style politics is fraught with dangerous ramifications? Has Islamabad directed Mirwaiz, Malik and other Kashmiri separatists to revise their strategy because the Pakistani establishment right now is not in a position to play the role as it used to play hitherto because the internal situation in Pakistan is highly volatile or that Islamabad is fighting against forces hell bent to wreck the Pakistani establishment? Or, has New Delhi succeeded in creating a schism in the separatist camp? Has New Delhi made up its mind to enter into some kind of agreement with the Kashmiri separatists? These are some the questions the developments in the Valley after January 1 have raised.
Now a few words on the January 4 Union Home Minister's New Delhi statement on "political settlement" of the so-called Kashmir issue and his favourable comments on what the Delhi-appointed interlocutors have done and said so far. He has said he anticipates a "political settlement this year." He has also said that the interlocutors have changed the discourse and have bnen able to persuade a number of stakeholders to offer suggestions for a political settlement." From what he has said only leads one to conclude that New Delhi something is cooking up in the South and North Blocks and that he has endorsed the interlocutors' line on Jammu and Kashmir. What is their view is known to everyone. A reference here to just one suggestion given by the interlocutors would be enough to reach a conclusion as to the direction towards which we are heading and the suggestion is that let the Kashmiris prepare a roadmap for Azaadi and "we would suggest an amendment in the Constitution to accommodate the Azaadi demand." Since it would be difficult to consider the Azaadi formulation, New Delhi could consider the Musharraf's formula as a possible solution. After all, the Prime Minister has publicly stated that he had reached an agreement with General Musharraf, but he could not sign it because of certain developments in Pakistan. Let's wait and see what New Delhi ultimately does. But one thing appears certain: New Delhi is out to barter away the paramount national interests in Kashmir at a time when the separatist camp is in complete disarray and when the common Kashmiris have virtually distanced themselves from the Kashmiri separatists and extremists. It's time for the people of Jammu and Ladakh and displaced Kashmiri Hindus to remain vigilant so that the evil designs are defeated comprehensively on time. (Concluded) |
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