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| Will Pak open talks with mainstream leaders too | | | Kashmiri separatists and their supporters seem to have lost patience.The reason is best known to them.One plausible reason for the loss of patience can be their frustration over the way New Delhi has ignored them,rather sidelined them.See what happened when the supporters of Syed Ali Shah Geelani created a ruckus in a conference organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis in Srinagar the other day.Gelani's supporters tried to heckle the Minister for Agriculture,G.H.Mir, a senior Congress leader,Mohd.Muzaffar Parrey,and a couple of MPs from Bihar.But Mir showed the guts when he went on addressing the gathering where he told people that he held his views as Geelani had his views.In fact what seemed to have irritated the impatient supporters of Geelani was Mir's genuine remarks that the decision on keeping some separatists under house arrest was usually taken by the state Government and not by the centre.He,therefore,did not want the slogan shouting people to blame Delhi for everything that took place in Kashmir.
Another sign of impatience and irrationality on the part of the separatists is seen in the exchange of views between the Hurriyat leaders and the Chief Minister on the question of holding talks with the mainstream political leaders belonging to Jammu and Kashmir.While referring to the recent interaction between the Kashmiri separatists and the Pakistan Foreign Minister,Hina Rabbani Khar,Omar Abdullah had Tweeted that if Pakistani leaders hold talks with men like Geelani and Umar Farooq they should talk to the mainstream political leaders also who represent the people of the state.Possibly the separatists were peeved over the way Omar questioned their claim on representing people of Jammu and Kashmir.Those belonging to the National Conference,PDP,BJP,Panthers Party and the Congress,besides smaller political groups,who contested the elections and were elected to the Assembly since 1989 when Pakistan sponsored militancy took roots in the state,are gnuine representatives of people of the state.
The separatists have not contested any election since 1996 and still they claim to represent people of the state.Whenever,their claim is disputed they start saying that they represent the aspirations and sentiments of people of the state.Ask them what are peoples'aspirations and sentiments Geelani and his supporters would say that people are for Kashmir's incorporation with Pakistan.If the same question is put to the JKLF chief he would say people want freedom.Hence there is no system available in the state which can measure and identify peoples' aspirations and sentiments when opinions and aspirations vary from region to region,from subregion to subregion and from district to district.For claiming to represent people separatists need to contest elections which they avoid fearing they would lose it as was the case in 1987 Assembly poll when the then MUF won four seats when they had plans of forming the Government.They raked up the issue of rigging which had taken place in less than eight constituencies.If rigging had not taken place the Muslim United Front would have won 11 seats.If Islamabad has kept the channls of dialogue with Kashmiri separaists open it should not feel shy in opening the same channels for talks with the mainstream political leaders.If it is opposed to it,then Islamabad should block dialogue channels with separatists also.
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