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| Enjoying hospitality, the guest spit venom against hosts | | | Yash Bhasin | 9/26/2011 10:43:27 PM |
| There is a popular Punjabi epithet, which translated in English means pulling the beard of a person sitting in his lap. The former Prime Minister of Pak occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Barrister Sultan Mohood Chowdry did act exactly this way. Coming to Indian part of Kashmir on a private visit, to attend the marriage in a family related to him, courtesy govt of India, who issued visa to him, with permission to visit Kashmir valley, he spit venom against India. He put the country in great embarrassment, by warning, in a press conference on the last day of his three day long visit to the valley, that hanging parliament attack convict Afzal Guru will derail Indo-Pak peace process. His statement in this regard is blatant interference in the internal affairs of this country and infringes on Indian sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir.
Afzal Guru is neither a Pakistani national nor he belongs to Pak occupied Kashmir. He is the citizen of Indian part of J&K, over which India has de-jure and de-facto sovereignty. Further guru is convicted and awarded death penalty for crime committed in the country’s heart land and capital, New Delhi. He conspired and accomplished attack on the highest democratic institution of the country and the pillar of country’s sovereignty, the parliament, killing few dozen people, though the target of the attack was the entire political leadership of the country, both ruling and opposition, since the parliament was in session those days. He has been provided ample opportunity to prove his innocence and the death sentence awarded to him by the trial court has been upheld by the Delhi High and the Supreme Court of India. His offence has been described by the apex court as rarest of the rare case. The Union Home Ministry, after sitting on his file for a very long, has long last recommended to the President of India to reject his mercy petition. The ball is in President’s court, after passing through all judicial process of this country.
If Sultan Mohmood had argued against capital punishment as such not in keeping with the humane spirit of a democratic country like India, it could carry some weight. But his plea that hanging Guru will adversely affect Indo-pak relations is untenable and tantamounts to interference in our judicial process and country’s internal affairs. Pakistan has no locus- standi in the matter.
The former Pok premier could not take the plea of abolishing capital punishment in India, since the country which occupies and controls that part of J&K has not abolish the same. The country which can hang its former Prime Minister, Zulf Kar Ali Bhutto, on frivolous charges, only as a political vendetta cannot give sermon to India against capital punishment. Then Sultan Mahmood has not spoken for the killers of Rajeev Gandhi, who too have been awarded death penalty.
Further, enjoying state hospitality in J&K by visiting Phelgham in a state helicopter, with MOs Home and Tourism deputed as attendant on him, former POK premier embarrassed the state govt and the leaders of mainstream parties, by stating that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other mainstream leaders are not the representatives of the people of J&K. By this he meant that only the separatist leader, who toe Pakistan line and are on the pay roll of that country, are the real representatives of the peoples. Though on a private visit, he conducted himself as a lobbyist for Pakistan, to further Pak agenda in this part of J&K.
The govt of India should have barred him from indulging in politics, while seeking visa for purely private visit. He embarrassed the Chief Minister, with whom he was described earlier to have friendly meeting, by describing the same as a chance meeting. Defending placing of state helicopter in his service, to ferry him to the tourist resort of Phelgham, Omar Abdullah has given a weak and unconvincing explanation. While doing so Omar Abdullah has mentioned Pak Occupied Kashmir (POK) as Azad Kashmir, compromising India’s stand on the issue that Pakistan has been in illegal occupation of parts of J&K, as a result of aggression.
Incidentally, lately some pseudo secularists and so called internationalists, for whom nationalism is a narrow parochial concept, have been stating POK as PAK (Pakistan Administered Kashmir). But Omar Abdullah has gone a step further by describing that part as Azad Kashmir, endorsing Pakistan’s line on the issue.
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