news details |
|
|
| Isolate and bring to justice anti-India Indians | | Fai's Arrest: Lessons for India | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 8: The July 19 arrest of the United States-based Pakistani agent of Kashmir origin Ghulam Nabi Fai has triggered a fierce debate in India with concerned Indians raising questions about the nature of the Indian State and suggesting that "now is the most appropriate time to take on headlong all those (from India) seeking to wreck the Indian polity both from within and outside." A leading private TV news channel Times Now took the lead in exposing the so-called Indians who had been willingly and cheerfully offering their services to Pakistan and its agent Fai since years to weaken the Indian stand on Jammu and Kashmir and vindicate the Pakistani stand that the Indian Jammu and Kashmir was a disputed territory and that the Pakistani claim over it was justifiable.
Times Now was not the only one that urged the authorities in New Delhi to act against the anti-India Indians and undertake all the necessary steps to isolate and bring to justice the anti-India Indians. Jammu province, which has been consistently fighting since 1947 for the unity and integrity of India and urging the authorities in New Delhi to not only strengthen its war machine along the strategic northern frontier but also take on and crush the secessionists of all varieties in Kashmir, also did not lag behind. The concerned and alarmed citizens of Jammu province, besides the premier organization of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus Panun Kashmir, were also, like Times Now, in the forefront demanding stringent action against the rebels, including the so-called Indian peace activists like Kuldip Nayar, Rajinder Sachhar, Gautam Navlakha, Angna Chatterjee, Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Harinder Bewaja, Jitendra Bakshi, Rekha Chowdhary, a Jammu-based journalist, to mention only a few, so that a right message goes across the world that India would neutralize everyone deemed anti-India.
In fact, the concerned Indians organized a seminar in Jammu on August 6 to register their protest against the Indian State for its failure to isolate and bring to justice the anti-India Indians. The theme of the seminar was "Fai's arrest in USA - Lessons for India." Those who spoke on the theme included Prof. ML Koul, prolific writer; BS Salathia, President of the Bar Association of Jammu; YV Sharma, President of Chamber of Commerce and Industries; Prof. Dipankar Sengupta, University of Jammu; Prof Hari Om, Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Jammu, and Member Indian Council of Historical Research; and Dr Ajay Chrungoo, Chairman of Panun Kashmir.
Opening the deliberations, Prof Koul said: "Fai's arrest in America has only brought out a facet of the problem which has infected the cross section of opinion makers in India." "Hobnobbing with agencies of inimical countries and masquerading as peace activists, these individuals living in India have done irreparable damage to the national interests," he also said. Besides, he discussed in detail the malaise of what called "internal subversion" and asserted that the "malaise has crippled the policy making process, particularly on the issue of national security."
BS Salthia, who had played a very significant role during the 2008 Amarnath land row after relinquishing the coveted office of Additional Advocate General and who has all along fought for the national as well as Jammu cause, was no less critical of the Indian State. He said: "Fai's Arrest in America has only exposed those individuals in India who claim to be experts, peaceniks and civil rights crusaders" and suggested that "time is apt now to isolate such individuals and not allow them to influence policy making in India" and added that the "policy making in India should be insulated from subversive influences and this should be the prime task of security agencies."
Prof Dipankar Sengupta, who has been taking keen interest in the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir, also took the custodians of the Indian State to task and bemoaned that they had utterly failed to discharge their obligations towards the nations by not taking action against those part of the ISI/Fai circuit. He said: "Pakistan has managed to fight a low cost intellectual/propaganda war with the help of India's intellectual class" and asserted that the "arrest (of Fai) is merely an indication of the problems that the USA has been having with Pakistan as his activities were known to the US authorities well in advance." At the same time, he asserted that the "degree of complicity of India's intellectuals with Fai's group is so deep that the Government, the intellectual class as well as a section of the India media find it better to defend their involvement with Fai than to admit any wrong doing." "This betrays the degree to which the Indian State may have compromised itself on Jammu and Kashmir," he, in addition, said.
YV Sharma was equally candid and forthright. He called a spade and spade and urged the Government of India to "take notice of what American Authorities did in regard to Fai and initiate similar actions to neutralize individuals of India who have been part of the Fai Circuit." There was no ambiguity in what he said while expressing grave concern over the wrongdoings of certain "Indians." So much so that he said "there are many Fais in Kashmir" and that "it is the responsibility of the state to take cognizance of their activities and act accordingly."
Prof Hari Om, who has written extensively on Fai and the attitude of the Indian State towards him and who also held the prestigious Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair in the University of Jammu, in his presentation asked everybody to "take serious notice of anti-India activities of Indians who are not only the part of Fai-ISI-circuit but all such circuits which are working to break India." "These Indians have been persistently promoting Pakistani line on Jammu and Kashmir. They claim it as a legitimate activity to promote peace in the region and particularly in Jammu and Kashmir and always give respectability to both separatism and terrorism. The role of Indians exposed to be part of Fai circuit has always been to present as illegal the Indian position on Jammu and Kashmir and eulogise terrorists and separatists," he said. He also underlined the need of "isolating all the identified anti-India Indians and bringing them to justice to produce the desired moral effect so that none in future dare to play into the hands of Pakistan and its agents like Fai."
Dr Ajay Chrungoo was no less bitter in his criticism of the Indian State. Speaking about the nature of subversion which has afflicted a section of Political class in India, he said "those Indians who have been now exposed to be in the ISI subversive circuit have been operating for years as track-2 lobbyists, emissaries and interlocutors not on behalf of Pakistan, but on behalf of Government of India" and asserted that "these persons are entrenched in the system and weaning them out is a critical task for all Indians." He didn't stop here. He went on to say that "those Indians, who have been on ISI circuit, have been on USA-circuit also" and that "most surprisingly most of such individuals have been blue-eyed boys of the Government of India." "All these individuals in India have an ideological convergence. They have no commitment to the Indian unity. They respect fundamentalism and terrorism as revolutionary and expression of victimhood of deprived sections and they oppose almost every proposition which strengthens Indian cause in Jammu and Kashmir," he also said.
This shows there was consensus among the speakers. They, who otherwise represent various interests, were one like the Palestinians urging the Indian State to act and discharge its obligations. The message from the seminar was loud and clear and the message was that the Indian State has already caused an irreparable damage to the national cause in the state by allowing unbridled freedom to the anti-India Indians and that it was time for the custodians of the Indian State to retrospect and devise and implement nation-centric policies - policies aimed at defeating comprehensively Pakistan and Fais and his Indian supporters. Another message was: The Indian nation will not allow the custodians of the Indian State to tinker with sovereignty and territorial integrity of India in any manner, come what may. And, what they sought to convey was what the people of Jammu province and other nationalists in the state have always believed in and worked for. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
