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| Govt keen on rehabilitation of ultras but not of Pak refugees in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 11: For the National Conference led Government facilitating those boys who had gone to Pakistan occupied Kashmir for arms training in returning to Jammu and Kashmir seems to be its priority. Day in and day out Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, is seen dishing out information about the number of applications received from the parents of the boys camping in occupied Kashmir and the number of applications cleared for their return journey.
That the ruling coalition treats the issue of return of the misguided youths to Jammu and Kashmir quite important is evident from the way the Chief Minister made a brief statement on the issue on the day the Durbar opened in Srinagar. Omar Abdullah said that 125 applications have been cleared under the rehabilitation policy to facilitate return of Kashmiri youth who had gone to receive arms training in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK) and are now eager to come back.
Omar said his Government has received 600 to 700 such applications. "The necessary information will flow to the families concerned and youth on how to return," he said. This indicates that the state Government is yet to clear the decks for the return of those youths who had crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir for arms training.
In fact Omar's repeated statement on the issue may be seen as a political gimmick by his adversaries because neither the state Government, though it is not authorised, not the Government of India has yet broached the issue with Islamabad. Discussing the matter with Muzaffarabad has no meaning because clearance for the return has to be given by Islamabad and that too under some bilateral agreement.
Another issue that baffles political analysts is the way the Chief Minister has been talking about rehabilitation of those youths who had gone to Pakistan administered Kashmir for arms training and want to return to Jammu and Kashmir but not of those who had crossed over to Pakistan for the same reasons. There are, reports said, several hundred Kashmiri youths in Pakistan who had crossed the border, years ago, for receiving arms training. They too wish to return to Jammu and Kashmir after they have felt homesick.
Is the rehabilitation policy meant only for those youths who had gone to Pakistan administered Kashmir for arms training and not for those who are stuck in Pakistan and want to return to Jammu and Kashmir after having abandoned the path of violence ?This is to be cleared by the Chief Minister.
Another issue pertains to the proper rehabilitation of refugees from Pakistan and POK who are settled in Jammu for the last several decades. Hitherto, the successive state Governments have refused to grant citizenship rights to the refugees from Pakistan on the plea that there is no provision in the state constitution. The state constitution has to be amended and then alone these refugees can be granted citizenship rights.
Why the amendment to the state constitution is not being carried out when the Assembly adopted a resolution on the rehabilitation policy of those youths who had gone to Pakistan administered Kashmir for arms training ?Does the state Government trusts youths, who wanted to be militants, more than the refugees from Pakistan and occupied Kashmir whose pariotism has been tested successfully for the last over 60 years ?
If it is not the case then the state Government should amend the constitution for which it can easily muster a two-third majority in the state Assembly so that refugees from Pakistan were granted citizenship rights. |
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