news details |
|
|
| Media coins new term for K separatists | | Separatist Is Separatist | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 10: Believe it or not but it is a fact that a section of print and electronic media has coined a new term for a section of Kashmiri separatists. This section has started terming this section of separatists as "mainstream separatists." Earlier, the entire Indian media, both print and electronic, used to call them "moderate" separatists. A leading private TV news channel has coined this term. It was coined some ten days ago. Nidhi Razdan of NDTV 24X7 coined this new term, to be more exact. Who are the separatists whom a section of media now calls "mainstream separatists." They include JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and his supporters, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chief Shabbir Ahmad Shah, in fact, those not part of Syed Ali Shah Geelani's pro-Pakistan Tehrik-e-Hurriyat (TeH).
It is for Razdan and others of her ilk to explain as to what has prompted them to use the term "mainstream separatists" and what do they mean when they use such a term for the separatists like Malik, Mirwaiz and Shabbir Shah. It is not for nothing that they have coined this new term and preferred to call them "mainstream separatists." It was also not an off-the-cuff remark. Razdan addressed a section of Kashmiri separatists "mainstream separatists" not once but a number of times in a span of thirty minutes and in a debate in which a couple of Kashmiri Hindus also took part. The theme of discussion was obviously the return of displaced Kashmiri Hindus to the Valley. She and others alone could educate the public opinion about what has inspired or prompted them to address a section of Kashmiri separatists as "mainstream separatists." They must explain and at the earliest because it has created confusion among the people.
However, it would be only appropriate to refer to what the Kashmiri separatists, including Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik, Shah and others, stand for in order to put things in perspective. Geelani wants the merger of Kashmir with Pakistan because Kashmir is Muslim majority. Malik and Shah stand for independence. Shah is also prepared to go in for some compromise in order to address the Pakistani concerns in the Indian Jammu & Kashmir. Mirwaiz's stands for a middle-path: He wants independence for Kashmir with both Pakistan and India exercising sovereignty over the state. To say this is not to suggest that he has any soft corner for India. He doesn't have. He is pursuing the middle-path because he knows New Delhi would neither grant independence to Kashmir nor would it allow Kashmir to become part of Pakistan. He believes once New Delhi endorses his line on Kashmir and gives effect to it would not be difficult to achieve the ultimate goal - separation from India. In other words, his middle-path is part of a grand strategy he has worked out to get rid of New Delhi in stages.
All this shows that Kashmiri separatists, without any exception, want New Delhi to vacate Kashmir. Their methodology is different and they are traversing different paths but their destination is the same. Independent Kashmir or Kashmir's merger with Pakistan would mean one and the same thing for India - another communal partition of India.
It must remain a matter of grave concern that there are media persons in India who are misleading the nation by giving respectability to those in Kashmir who have been working for the Kashmir's independence. Separatist is a separatist and that's it. There cannot be any discussion on it. However, our biggest problem is New Delhi, which has been allowing certain persons to preach and advocate non-sense and confuse the nation. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
