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| J&K: Prime Minister again disappoints the nation | | Congress Of Confusion | | Rustam
Jammu, Sept 17: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is, it appears, determined to embolden the Kashmiri separatists and others in Kashmir, who consider Jammu and Kashmir as a "disputed territory" and not as an integral part of India. The speech he delivered yesterday at the three-day Directors General and Inspectors General conference in New Delhi doesn't convey any other meaning. The meeting has been organised by Intelligence Bureau (IB) to discuss the internal situation in the country and find ways and means to tackle those out to cause disturbances in the country to achieve their nefarious designs.
What did the Prime Minister say? He, inter-alia, said: "Security environment in the country continues to be uncertain… There are reports of cross-border camps for terrorists being reactivated, and of attempts to induct fresh batches of militants into the country… While a process of broad-based consultation has been initiated to find honourable settlement, there is no room for complacency on the security front in the State…We have initiated a process of broad-based consultation to find a way forward in Jammu and Kashmir. We need to give the processes of dialogue and democracy a chance to secure a just and honourable settlement that meets the aspirations of all sections of the people…"
Nobody would disagree with the Prime Minister when he expresses concern over the prevailing security environment in the country, as the internal situation in the country has over the period deteriorated to a considerable extent. Everyone in the country is worried about what has been happening for years now. One would also share his concern over the fresh attempts being made from across the border to export terrorism and over the attempts being made by Islamabad, its dreaded spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence and the Pakistani all-powerful and aggressive Army to "reactivate" cross-border camps for terrorists". Likewise, every concerned India would vouch for his suggestion that "there is no room for complacency on the security front in the State" (read Jammu and Kashmir).
However, none in the country, barring the secessionists and India-based friends and well-wishers of unscrupulous, ambitious and aggressive Pakistan, would endorse his formulations on the political future of Jammu and Kashmir. His suggestion that he has initiated "a process of broad-based consultation…to find honourable settlement" has, undoubtedly created doubts in the minds of the people about his intentions. The fears have become all the more palpable considering his past interventions, actions and unwarranted statements, as also considering the revelations recently made by whistle blower Wikileaks. One of the revelations was that our Prime Minister had said that "India and Pakistan have a shared destiny". The revelation clearly suggested that the Prime Minister, who himself is a refugee from Pakistan and victim of fanaticism, had conveniently forgotten that Pakistan had come into being after the communal partition of India.
Anyway, the memory of what he said at Havana (Cuba) still lingers in our mind. At Havana, he had obliged Pakistani President General Pervez Musharrraf, who had masterminded the attack on Kargil to de-link Kashmir from India and annex it. At Havana, our Prime Minister equated Pakistan with India and surprised the whole nation by saying that "Pakistan, like India, is also a victim of terror." New Delhi took this complete U-turn for the first time. The U-turn accorded legitimacy to the cult of terror employed for promoting geo-political interests.
Not content with all this, he lowered the prestige of the Indian nation in the eyes of the international community two years ago, when he obliged the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gilani at Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt) by accepting his outrageous suggestion that a reference must be made to the subversive activities in Baluchistan in the joint-statement to be issued by the two Prime Ministers. He did not stop here. He caused a shock to the outraged Indian nation by de-linking terrorism from the dialogue process. It was another U-turn on the part of New Delhi. He took this U-turn forgetting his solemn declaration that terrorism and dialogue could not go hand-in-hand. His government had taken the stand in the wake of the deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that India would resume the dialogue process with Pakistan only after Islamabad stopped exporting terrorism and destroyed terrorist producing factories on its soil as well as the illegally-occupied areas.
The post Sharm-el-Sheikh period witnessed one U-turn after another and he and the Indian Foreign Office bungled again and again at Thimpu (Bhutan) and Islamabad. Even the Pakistani statement that "we have not knelt, India has knelt under the US pressure and resumed talks with us" had no impact whatsoever on the Prime Minister and our foreign office. Earlier, our Prime Minister had made several controversial statements, all indicating his soft approach towards Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists. His formulations on the Actual Line of Control, on the borders, on the demands seeking autonomy and self-rule, on the alleged human rights abuses and his formulations like non-territorial solution and his willingness to accept the Musharraf's four-point Kashmir formula - shared sovereignty, self-governance, joint-mechanism, soft borders, demilitarization - have all given us to understand that he could go to any extent to accommodate Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and communalists.
Which settlement our Prime Minister talked about yesterday? Does he, like the separatists, believe that Jammu and Kashmir is an unresolved issue? And, who has given him the mandate to create doubts about the otherwise settled issue of Jammu & Kashmir? He doesn't represent any constituency anywhere in the country. Does he not know that the problem in Kashmir is communal and not political? Does he not know that Kashmir is the most prosperous region in the country and that Kashmir already exercises extraordinary legislative and executive powers? Doesn't he know that Kashmir has established its stranglehold over Jammu and Ladakh? Doesn't he know that there are elements in Kashmir who wish to give a particular orientation to the state's polity, society and economy? Doesn't he know that Pakistan has no locus standi in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir and that the only issue that still remains unresolved between the two countries if the political future of the occupied territories, called PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan?
One can only hope and pray that our Prime Minister would stop using words like settlement loosely. He and his government must not forget that they are playing with fire and that the Indian nation is not prepared for any compromise whatever. |
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