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| Directionless Kashmir Policy | | | Ravinder Rajguru | 1/4/2012 12:12:25 AM |
| New Delhi has given a free run to separatists in Kashmir and Pakistan at international level and the result is that they are openly stoking the fire of hatred against India and Indians. Ducking all issues those need to be dealt with iron hands cannot go on like this any longer. The Indo-Pak diplomacy on resolving Kashmir issue is a sheer hypocrisy. Whenever the diplomats of India and Pakistan met in the past two sides agreed to build convergence by narrowing the divergences on Kashmir issue, at the same time Pakistani politicians kept creating euphoria by repeating Kashmir being the core issue and Pakistan continue to extend full moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiri brethren in their just struggle for realizing their inalienable rights and legitimate aspirations and used to say that Pakistani would not rest unless the people of Kashmir get their right to self-determination and win freedom from the Indian domination.
As Pakistan is thriving on Kashmir and has been sloganeering for fighting a thousand years war to grab it; our leaders buckling on this issue. A question arises here that Why Indian government is not reiterating its official stand on Kashmir, as reinforced by the unanimous resolution of Parliament in February 1994, that Kashmir is Non-negotiable and the areas of dispute remain vacation of Pakistan occupied areas of Jammu and Kashmir beside stopping aid to the scourge of terrorism in Kashmir and other parts of India. Our Union Home Minister has adopted a defensive approach to deal with the anti-nationals in Kashmir. As long as India does not call a spade a spade there cannot be any forward movement in eradicating the atmosphere of terror in Kashmir. We must understand that for Pakistan all other issues like trade, people to people contact or confidence building measures with India are meaningless. It seeks kashmir to be presented to them on a platter, therefore, they are required to be brought out of that syndrome, which cannot be done by the way of hypocrisy as Chidambaram is thinking. India should do some plain speaking on its stand about the future of Kashmir. There is no need for being defensive or apologetic about Kashmir. The problem lays with Pakistan and a few of its supporters in Kashmir Valley.
Unfortunately Our successive Union governments had ignored the nationalist section like Paharies, Gujjars, Dogras, Ladakhis, Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs, Shias, and a sizable section of Sunni muslims in Jammu and Kashmir and embraced the section of anti-nationals headed by Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Shabir Shah, Yasin Malik etc.
Even the Political leaders of all hues describing Kashmir as a "political problem". Right from Omar Abdullah, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti to Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami (CPI-M) all want political solution. However, none of them explains what they mean by political problem. Do they want a system other than the one the Indian Constitution hands down to the people? Do they want a totalitarian government or a government, Chinese-style or Hitler-style, or the type of the government the Communists established in the erstwhile Soviet Union or Hitler established in Germany? Do they want a system under which social classes cease to exist or do they want a system that makes available to them means of achieving empowerment and "happiness consistent with the general good"? Do they want authoritarianism or a system of government in which "power is exercised by some particular elements with minimum popular input" or do they want an absolute monarchy controlled by a king and assisted by the nobility accountable to none? Do they want a local oligarchy in which the ruling elite exercises absolute legislative, executive and judicial powers or a system that would have committed judiciary and committed constitutional head and that bars the people from enjoying even normal civil and political rights, including the right to speech and assembly? Do they want a system similar to the one prevailing in Pakistan where none is safe and where dissent is viewed as sedition and which promotes only fanaticism? Do they want a theocratic rule of the type the Taliban, the Al-Qaeda, the Lashkar-e-Toiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Jaish-e-Mohammad have been striving to introduce in the region? Or, do they consider Kashmir as unfinished agenda of partition and want another communal division of India?
It is not really difficult to know what Kashmiri leaders stand for when one takes into consideration what they contemptuously say about India and Indian Constitution. They want secession, to be more precise, they are the ardent believers in the concept of two-nation theory and they consider themselves a race apart. Hence, the need of the time is to hasten the process of constitutional integration between Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi and not weaken it by making such ridiculous statements like "Autonomy within the Indian Constitution " The hypocrisy has done more harm than any good to the people in Kashmir and had always kept the pot of separatism boiling. The time has come for New Delhi to rethink on its Kashmir strategy and shun the directionless Kashmir policies in future. |
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