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MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 8: Kashmiri separatists are not happy with the Delhi-appointed interlocutors. Similarly, the separatists-cum-political commentators are also very angry with them. One of them is Dr Javid Iqbal, who has been taking part in all the anti-India meetings held in and outside Kashmir, distorting facts, murdering history and interpreting things in a fashion intended to mislead the policy-planners in New Delhi. He has also been writing Kashmir-centric political essays for months now. In fact, he has unleashed a no-holds-barred misinformation campaign to hoodwink the international community and mislead the Indian public opinion. He is one commentator who, like all the Kashmiri leaders, separatists or otherwise, wants the interlocutors to focus only on Kashmir and dismiss Jammu and Ladakh with contempt as non-entities unworthy of any say whatsoever in the governance of the state or any role whatever. His latest political essay “Challenge & Opportunity” (February 8) is nothing but a classical example of biased writing.
Why is Iqbal not happy with interlocutors like Dileep Padgaonkar? He is unhappy because of what he calls Padgaonkar’s “attempts to rough the predominant sentiment Jammu and Ladakh ace up the establishment sleeve.” Padgaonkar had reportedly told a national English language daily that “the big lesson we (interlocutors) have learnt in the past four months is that while the grievances of the people of the valley are far more intense than those of other regions of J&K, any kind of settlement would necessarily have to take into account the grievances of Jammu and Ladakh.”
It was this observation that has shocked and unnerved Iqbal. The extent of his anger could be easily measured from what he has written in this regard in his outrageous essay on the so-called Kashmir problem and its solution, notwithstanding the fact that Padgaonkar shamelessly sided with the Kashmiri separatists and others of their ilk who again and again sing the, monotonous, irritating, irrational and flawed alienation song and want New Delhi to settle the issue over the heads of the people of Jammu and Ladakh. Iqbal wrote: “Whatever the perception of the chief interlocutor, whatever the context of his input, this is taken widely as an effort to dilute the predominant sentiment in the state (read parts of the Kashmir Valley), and rough it with what is widely conceived by the establishment circles as the ace up its sleeve.
Padgaonkar, in fact, seems to be bent upon moving into horizons of roughing the predominant sentiment, as he expounds his trail of thinking in the interview quoted above ‘first I learnt, when you are looking for a settlement, to be fixated only on Kashmir would be incorrect.’ So after months of interlocution, the chapter of genesis in the Kashmir study of the chief interlocutor remains not to remain fixated only on Kashmir. Translated it means the same, the conclusion which gives people a shiver-an effort to dilute the predominant sentiment!”
His anger is as misplaced as it is communally and political motivated. Actually, Iqbal should have patted Padgaonkar for his statement that the “grievances of the people of the valley are far more intense than those of other regions of J&K.” After all, what Padgaonkar had told the national daily was what all the Kashmiri leaders, barring those belonging to the displaced community of Kashmiri Hindus, had been saying since 1947 conveniently suppressing the fact that it had been Kashmir that had been ruling the state and not just exploiting to the hilt the people of Jammu and Ladakh but also destroying them socially, culturally, economically and politically. But, no, Iqbal, like all other Kashmiri separatists and their sympathizers and supporters outside Kashmir, would not appreciate Padgaonkar and Co. Instead, Iqbal, like others of his ilk, would accuse Padgaonkar and Co of “diluting the predominant sentiment (read separatist and communal sentiment.)
Iqbal should know that he is preaching nothing but falsehood and provoking the already rather angry people of Jammu and Ladakh. He should also remember that the people of these two regions are now not in a mood to oblige the Kashmiri separatists and the votaries of autonomy and self-rule. He would do well to stop preaching falsehood and demanding another communal partition of India. People of Jammu province and Ladakh region are a force to reckon with. No one can ignore them. This is a hard fact and it has to be recognized. Iqbal cannot force down the throat of Jammu and Ladakh his pernicious and regressive ideology.
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