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| Problem in Valley K leadership and Delhi | | Freezing Kashmir | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Mar 9: Reports suggest that New Delhi and Islamabad have decided to freeze the Kashmir issue for a period of ten years and strengthen economic ties and encourage people to people contact between the two countries, statements to the contrary issued by Pakistan Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary notwithstanding. It appears United States is behind the move. What the question to be asked is: Will Kashmiri leaders, both the so-called mainstream and separatist, appreciate the reported change in the attitude of New Delhi and Islamabad? The answer is not in the affirmative; the answer is a big NO.
Kashmiri leaders would not appreciate the reported change of heart on the part of the troubled Congress-led UPA Government in New Delhi and an equally troubled PPP-led coalition government in Pakistan. Why? Why because the very existence and relevance of Kashmiri leaders in the Valley depends upon the politics of competitive communalism and separatism. Kashmiri leaders would become further irrelevant the day they stop talking Kashmir and Kashmir problem. For, their whole support-base in the Kashmir Valley is sectarian, parochial, and even fundamentally anti-India. It's not that the common Kashmiri Muslims were anti-India by nature and conviction; they adopted anti-India attitude because the Kashmiri leadership did all they could to hold them aloof from the mainstream politics. It was the Kashmiri leadership that poisoned the minds of the common Kashmiri Muslims to enjoy worldly life or promote their vested interests at the cost of the gullible Kashmiri Muslims. It was they who exploited the religious sensitivities of the common Kashmiri Muslims and the result is what it is - anti-India sentiment in Kashmir and the emergence of secessionist and communal movement in the Kashmir Valley.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who has lost most of his sheen and appeal, just can't afford to keep quiet. He would continue to rake up the Kashmir issue to remain relevant, notwithstanding the fact that sections of Kashmiri Muslims accuse him of furthering his own personal agenda at the cost of the people of Kashmir. Similarly, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who, like Geelani, has also lost his sheen and appeal and whose area of influence is confined to a few pockets in the Srinagar's downtown area, would also not reform himself, notwithstanding the fact that he, like pro-Pakistan Geelani and other Kashmiri separatists like Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah, knows it full well that he is seeking to accomplish something that just cannot be accomplished because the Indian nation is against the idea of New Delhi giving any concession whatsoever to Kashmir. He would continue to keep the pot boiling to maintain his position.
As for the so-called mainstream Kashmir-based parties such as the National Conference, less said the better. They are more dangerous than the separatist outfits because they are part of the establishment; they are misusing their official position to wreck the polity both from within and outside saying Jammu and Kashmir is a political problem that needs a political solution. And by political solution they mean withdrawal of the central laws and institutions from the state and semi-independence or a step short of complete independence.
Even the Kashmir-based Congress leaders can't afford to take pro-India stand. Take, for example, what former minister and JKPCC president Ghulam Rasoool Kar said on May 10, 2011 while addressing a convention of party workers at Sopore. He, inter-alia, said: "Every Kashmiri is emotionally attached to Pakistan whether they are in Congress or National Conference…Every heart in Kashmir beats for Pakistan…I am an Indian but I am pained to see Pakistan in trouble. When a Pakistani gets killed in a bomb blast, my eyes get moistened automatically. This is how every Kashmiri feels…Congress should have cordial relations with Pakistan. The party must strive for resolution of all disputes with Pakistan especially the dispute on Kashmir".
That the Kashmiri leaders would not desist from vitiating the atmosphere in the state in general and Kashmir in particular and that they are committed to arouse popular passions in the Valley is a hard fact that needs to be recognised by the policy-planners in New Delhi. They and New Delhi are the real culprits. New Delhi is a culprit because it, instead of isolating and bringing to justice the hardcore Kashmiri separatists and taking to task those indulging in soft-secessionism, has systematically pampered and emboldened them by airing controversial views. Take, for instance, the stand of the Union Home Minister and Foreign Minister on Jammu and Kashmir.
The moral of the story is that things are not going to change in the state because there are vested interests in Srinagar and New Delhi who would want uncertainty in the Valley for reasons not difficult to fathom.
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