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| Amnesty for militants on the cards | | | Are winds of change discernible in Kashmir?Yes winds of change,even if not discernible,keep Kashmir cool if one relies on the latest statement of the Union Home Minister,G.K.Pillai.Pillai has given vent to a number of important matters.The one pertains to,as per his report,militancy standing on its last legs in Jammu and Kashmir.The reason being,what he says,not many are prepared to join militancy with the result the local recruitment has almost reached zero level.He has said that Hizbul Mujahideen is dead and out as far as its local character is concerned.He means that if Hizbul Mujahideen exists it does so because of foreign mercenaries after it lost number of its activists and senior field commaners. Pillai is of the opinion that the number of militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir has markedly declined.At the same time he has not ruled out the possibility of fresh infiltration of militants from across the border and that too soon after the border routes become passable after the melting of snow.He has reports that groups of militants are waiting across the border for entering into Jammu and Kashmir and in this connection he has called for increased vigil on the LOC for foiling ingress.If Pillai says that militancy was on its last legs why has then the eerie peace got distrubed by the recent killing of three political and religious leaders,especially the chief of Jamait Ahle Hadees,Maulana Showkat Ahmed?If he sees winds of change blowing fast in Kashmir why there has been delay in the withdrawal of troops and paramilitary forces within the civilian areas in Kashmir ?
Yes one would like to agree with Pillai when he talks about rapid decline in the level of militancy related incidents and activities.Nobody can dispute it despite the fact that some forces were trying to trigger violence and civilian strife.Efforts are being made to incite people to take to the streets and hold protest demonstrations on the pattern the valley had witnessed between June and September last year in which 112 people were killed in firing opened by the security forces.Had the situation totally eased there should have been no need for the Union Home Ministry to spend several crores of rupees on procuring nonlethal weapons and teargas shells for the security forces deployed in Kashmir.A portion of these weapons have already reached Srinagar.In fact the state authorities were making preparations for meeting any eventuality in the wake of rise of civilian strife though possibilities of staging 2010 type summer violence in the current year seem to be remote.It is good that the Government does not want to be caught napping by leaving things in the hands of fate.
And it is for the first time that a senior Government functionary like G.K.Pillai has ruled out the possibility of holding talks with militants.He has been quite clear on one thing.The Government,according to him,has no intention of holding talks with a militant of the stature of Syed Salahunddin,who has been heading the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council.Pillai says the issue of talks could be discused once militants abandoned the path of violence and joined the mainstream politics.He is not prepared to extend any invitation to militants,camping across the border.Instead he wants them to shun violence and avail of the amnesty that was being granted to them shortly.He even wants men like Salahuddin to return after pledging his supprt for the peace process.This way Pillai is so much confident that the Government of India has decided to accept the demand of the PDP and the National Conference on allowing those Kashmiri youth,who had crossed over to Pakistan and occupied Kashmir for arms training,who were willing to abandon the path of violence by pledging to work for peace.But the Government should not ignore it that militancy is yet to be dead and out in Kashmir which calls for a step by step approach in dealing with all those who were connected with militant outfits and militancy.
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