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STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 1: Out-on-the-limb and frustrated APHC chairman Miwaiz Umar Farooq has again crossed the line by saying that he is willing to discuss everything with New Delhi in order to resolve the so-called Kashmir issue. He has also ruled out the possibility of re-unification of his outfit and the one headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Tehrik-e-Hurriyat and this is understandable. For, in the re-unification lies his destruction. After all, he, like other Kashmiri separatists, do not believe in the old saying “United we stand, divided we fall.” He, like other separatists, believe in the newly-coined dictum: “Divided we stand, united we fall.” And, hence, there is no need to comment on his anti-re-unification statement. This is an issue that doesn’t warrant any reflection whatever in the sense that the Kashmiri separatists would never ever come on one platform for personal reasons, including their insatiable lust for money, publicity, ego problem and personality clashes.
Hence, focus on the Mirwaiz’s June 29 statement on his willingness to talk to New Delhi and negotiate a settlement over the state. He said: “We are not against dialogue in any way. But dialogue should not be for sake of the dialogue. Neither New Delhi and Islamabad have been able to made any headway in dialogue in past nor they can reach in future without the inclusion of Kashmiris…We are in touch with some people from civil society. But there is no contact at official level...After last year’s massive uprising, there was a chance for Government of India to address the root cause of the problem. But unfortunately they still believe in dilly-dally tactics and are happy with status quo… The Confidence building measures cannot be final solution. They can create conducive atmosphere for dialogue…Dialogue has to be either trilateral or tripartite, then only it can succeed…Parvez Musharaf’s 4-point Kashmir formula…can be (an) interim experiment but not the final solution…”
What he said makes it quite clear that he considers himself as the chief spokesperson of the people of the state and creates an impression that negotiation of peace with him would mean the fulfillment of aspirations of all the people of the state. Who has given him the mandate to speak even on behalf of the people of Kashmir? He doesn’t represent them. He represents only a microscopic minority inhabiting parts of downtown area or areas around Jamia Masjid, Srinagar. He doesn’t represent even Hyderpora where Geelani lives or Maisuma where sometime the writ of Yasin Malik runs. Who, then, he claims, he represents?
As for Jammu province and the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region, which house the state’s more than half of the state’s population and which occupy more than 89 per cent of the state’s geographical area, Mirwaiz has no say whatever. He just can’t dare to address any meeting in these two regions, barring a couple of pockets in the Jammu province’s Muslim-majority areas, especially the erstwhile Doda district. Even there, the people are not really with him as they believe that Mirwaiz, like other Kashmiri separatists, is not committed to what he has been saying, that the Mirwaiz is self-centered, that he is thriving on the blood and sweat of the innocent and emotional Kashmiri Muslims and that he is simply playing with sentiments of the gullible Kashmiri Muslims to grind his own axe.
It is not a secret that the people of Jammu and Ladakh do not subscribe to the ideology Mirwaiz preaches or other Kashmiri separatists preach. Mirwaiz, like other separatists, preach hatred and intolerance and advocate an ideology that negates modernization, progressive thinking, peaceful co-existence, accommodation, democracy and secularism. The people of Jammu and Ladakh hate and abhor what he and other Kashmiri separatists preach and advocate. Not only that, they also vehemently oppose those Kashmiri leaders who demand autonomy and self-rule for the state. They are for complete integration into India. They are also for the application of the Indian Constitution to the state in full. A very vast majority of them even opposes Article 370 saying this Article is the root cause of all the troubles.
So, whom Mirwaiz represents? He doesn’t represent anybody. He only represents himself and his handful of followers and supporters and Pakistani interests. He would do well to look all these facts in the face and stop irritating and provoking the people of the state, particularly those belonging to Jammu province and Ladakh region.
New Delhi should also stop pampering the likes of Mirwaiz. It is New Delhi that has been sustaining them and their sectarian and secessionist movement. Had New Delhi acted like the genuine states, like the United States, China and Israel, act there would have been no Mirwaizs, no Geelanis, no Maliks and no Shabbir Shahs. They are the products of the New Delhi’s weak-kneed Kashmir policy as well as its ambiguous stand on Jammu and Kashmir. |
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