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| Restoration of autonomy can't settle Kashmir issue: APHC | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 20:
Kashmiri separatists do not evince any interest in the reported recommendations of the three interlocutors favouring restoration of greater autonomy to the state. The separatists favour settlement of the Kashmir issue and not any devolution of political and financial powers.
A senior APHC leader, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, said that "we want resolution of the Kashmir issue which is key to peace in the subcontinent". He said restoration of greater autonomy was not going to solve the Kashmir problem. He said that had the greater autonomy been a substitute for settlement of the Kashmir issue the problem would have then ended in 1948-1952.
Bhat said that greater autonomy was simply a political and constitutional arrangement between the centre and the state and more than that. He said that even this constitutional concession had been eroded and revoked within less than six years. Hence what guarantee "we have that if autonomy was restored to the state it would not be eroded or revoked? " he asked.
In reply to a question he said that there was no harm if Ram Jethmalani, a veteran lawyer and parliamentarian, revived his 10-year old Kashmir committee for the purpose of holding parleys with a cross section of people including the separatists. Asked whether Jethmalani would be an untouchable as the three interlocutors were for them Bhat said "we do not treat anyone untouchable."
He said that if the separatists refused to interact with the interlocutors it was the result of "our belief that there was no purpose in meeting the interlocutors who were not a decision making body and could simply recommend certain things to the centre."
"We want to hold a dialogue with those who can take decisions," he added.
He suggested that instead of wasting time on setting up committees and bodies it was better for the Government of India to resume the composite dialogue with Islamabad on hand and on the other resume talks with the Kashmiri separatists so that they could be involved in triangular parleys at a later stage.
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