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| Mirwaiz willing to talk to New Delhi, he is great | | Self-Styled Representative | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 26: APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is great and large-hearted. He is willing to talk to the under-attack Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram to break the deadlock and resolve the "unresolved" Jammu and Kashmir issue. He is New Delhi today and would meet in the late evening the young and quite assertive newly-appointed Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to report what he has done in the Valley to further the Pakistani cause there. He would do so under the very nose of the Indian authorities controlled and guided by none other than AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi who has, people say, "no stakes in India and whose single-point agenda is to undo all that the nation has done so far to integrate Jammu and Kashmir into India." It's obvious that Mirwaiz would reassure the visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister that Islamabad needs not worry as he, and others of his ilk, are there in Kashmir to address the Pakistani concerns in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. This is Khar's maiden visit to the Indian capital, New Delhi.
The "flexible" and "peace activist" Mirwaiz says that he is willing to talk to the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister provided New Delhi accepts his pre-conditions. His pre-conditions are five. "Confidence building measures are important to create an atmosphere for talks. India should release political prisoners (read separatists, communalists and terrorists), repeal draconian laws that give special powers to the armed forces and start gradual demilitarization. There are curbs on political rights of Hurriyat leaders (read protagonists of separation of Jammu and Kashmir from India). We are not allowed to have our political programmes. In these circumstances we cannot talk," he has said while explaining his pre-conditions in New Delhi.
Who is this Mirwaiz? Whom does he represent? What does he stand for? Does he represent the people of Jammu who constitute almost half the state's population? Does he represent the people of Ladakh? Does he even represent the people of Kashmir, including those who migrated out of the Valley in early April 1990? Who has given him the mandate to speak on behalf of the people of the state? These are some of the straight and simple questions that need answer.
Mirwaiz is a cleric, separatist, politician and Pakistan-sponsored and aided propagandist. He has his support-base confined to the Jamia Masjid area in Srinagar. His methodology: provoke gullible Kashmiri Muslims every Friday, give call for bandh on regular intervals and visit various countries where the anti-India seminars are organized. He stands for a solution that ultimately ends the Indian presence in Jammu and Kashmir. He is also willing to accept the Musharraf's formula - division of the state into seven zones, demilitarization, self-governance and India-Pakistan joint-control over Jammu and Kashmir - as an interim measure.
He is a self-styled representative. He doesn't represent the people of Jammu province. The people of Jammu province, barring a handful of disgruntled elements, do not subscribe to what he says, preaches and demands. They describe his pronouncements as "vicious", "patently communal" and "exclusivist." They stand for complete integration into India and application of the Indian Constitution to the state in full, notwithstanding the fact that the Delhi rulers, like the Kashmiri rulers, have always dismissed them with contempt as irrelevant. They also stand for reorganization of the state or for a dispensation that is independent of Kashmir.
Mirwaiz doesn't represent the people of Ladakh. The people of Ladakh, like the people of Jammu province, are ardent believers in the concepts of Indian sovereignty and territorial integrity. They are not communal. They are for a dispensation that is within India and under the Indian constitution. The watchword of the people of Leh district, including Buddhists and Muslims, is Union Territory. The watchword of the people of Kargil district is empowerment within India.
And, what about the displaced Kashmiri Hindus? They, like the people of Jammu and Ladakh, hate and abhor what Mirwaiz preaches and demands. They are out-and-out pro-India, notwithstanding the fact that New Delhi abandoned them years ago to please the Kashmiri secessionists. They want to return to Kashmir but they want a separate homeland within the Valley invested with the status of Union Territory. They even oppose those self-styled representatives of Kashmiri Hindus like Jitendra Bakshi who say if the displaced Kashmiri Hindus are to return to Kashmir they have to earn the "goodwill of majority community" (read Muslim community" and live in Kashmir in the manner the majority community would want them to live.
So, who is this gentleman, called Mirwaiz? He is a self-styled representative of people. It is a different story that the Congress-led UPA Government accords him and the kind of politics he indulges in legitimacy. The problem is not in Kashmir. Even Mirwaiz is not a problem. The problem is New Delhi and the New Delhi-based leadership. Mirwaiz can be shown his place in no time provided New Delhi is willing to patronize the nationalist constituency in the state - constituency that is very vast. But we live in India where nationalists have little or no say and where the likes of Mirwaiz and Geelani play the shots and openly hobnob with anti-India nations, including Pakistan. There are many Rahul Gandhis, Chidambarams, Sibals and Digvijays in India who say that "Hindu terrorism is dangerous than Islamic terrorism" and that it is the organizations like "RSS" are responsible for the rise of terrorism in India because these are "radical" outfits. |
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