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Who stonewalled Plebiscite In Kashmir?
M.M. Khajooria10/22/2011 12:04:52 AM
Rejecting the report submitted by Interlocutors, Dalip Padggaonkar, Radha kumar and M.M.Ansari to the Union Home Minster Chidam-baram,, En. Rashid, the current favorite ISI pawn in Kashmir chess board ,said "If they ( India) are not ready for implementation of UN resolutions, at least they should resolve the issue through tri-part irate dialogue" .His comment should surprise no one .The reference is obviously to the UN resolution pertaining to plebiscite/refrendom , the issue on which .Pakistan has, from day 0ne relied on falsehood and half truths . Strategic disinformation was skillfully employed to confuse and confound the public opinion not only in Kashmir but at home as well as abroad. .
In true Gobelian style Pakistan propaganda machine made song and dance of the proposed plebiscite totally suppressing the mandatory preconditions. The fraud continued to be played ..
The truth is that the UN resolution pertaining to the proposal to hold a plebiscite indited Pakistan as aggressor in Kashmir. It mandated that Pakistan army and irregulars led by its army officers be withdrawn and the vacated occupied territory handed over to India. In essence, these were the preconditions of holding the UN supervised plebiscite.. Moreover, it was universally recognized that India would win a landslide victory in a plebiscite held in Jammu & Kashmir anytime up to January 1953. There after tensions built between the central leadership and Sheikh Mohd Abdullah placing a question mark on its feasibility as well as outcome. Hackles were however bound to be raised when Parshant Shushan , an eminent lawyer, political activist and member of what has come to be described as the ANNA TEAM, promoted the idea of Referendum/ plebiscite in Kashmir. The assault on his person on account of the controversial remarks though despicable and . condemnable , should not cloud the objective debate on the crucial ,issue. Lot has been spoken and written about of UN resolutions on the "right of Self-determination" of the people of Kashmir and its alleged denial by India. Unfortunately Indian establishment and political class have generally, for obscure reasons shied away from joining issues head on confining response to self righteous assertions and emotional out bursts. Political analyst, media persons and intellectuals in Pakistan and POK have however been much more objective forthright ,sensitive and realistic. .
Late,Khalid Hussain , a journalist of high repute and an eminent political commentater, hailing from Jammu who rose to be Media Advisor to Prime Minister Bhutoo presented a paper titled "Pakistan Not Ready to Implement UN resolutions" in the Third Internationals Kashmir conference in Washington "Assuming that India agree to the full implementation of UN resolutions, the ball, " he said will land in the court of Pakistan" "Will Pakistan " he demanded be" prepared to pull out every single soldier now stationed on its side of the Line of Control ?. Will Pakistan agree to the expulsion or if necessary of extirpation of Islamic fighting groups who continue to operate freely with permission or connivance of the official authority in Azad Kashmir? Will Pakistan agree to the holding of plebiscite that it demands for the entire state of Jammu & Kashmir only 64% of whose population was Muslim,33% being Hindu and 35 Buddhist? "Will Pakistan. Be prepared to accept the Northern Areas ( sine renamed as Gilgit Baltistan) an integral part of the of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir as it stood on 14 August, 1947"? . While UN resolutions offer only two choices-India or Pakistan ,will Pakistan be prepared to accept what has come to be known as the Third option in the event the people of the state demand independence"?. "The answers he stipulated" have to be honest, uninfluenced by prejudice, history and self interest
Those who sing the PAK tune in Kashmir do not seem to realize, the great disservice they wreding to the youth of Kashmir . The young boys and girls go out into the world of information explosion and global interaction eqipped with information that has no basis and consequently contrived perception totally out of sync with reality. In any serious debate on the subject they suffer embarrassment and humiliation just because their elders cheat them of truth which was documented and in the public domain .. May be Er. Rashid and his peers care to mull over the answers to fundamental questions raised by Khalid Hussain. As for as Khalid Hussain himself was concerned" "The answer to all these questions was frankly speaking in the negative.". Oh, yes is Advocate Parshant Bhushan of the "Team Anna" listening?
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