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| "Separatist offices shops selling blood of youth" | | Attack On K Separatists | | Rustam
jammu, Mar 29: Rajbagh in Srinagar is also known for the offices the Kashmiri separatists have set up there. Almost all the separatist outfits have opened their offices in this posh locality. Some people call it freedom colony. Some people call it a den of anti-India intrigues. Some people call these offices in Rajbagh as money minting factories. Some contemptuously dismiss the Hurriyat offices in the Rajbagh locality as shops "selling blood of youth" and they are none other than those seeking separation from India. It is not an exaggeration. It is a statement of fact.
On Tuesday, the Kashmir Bar Association (KBA) organised a seminar to commemorate the 16th anniversary of human rights activist Jalil Andrabi. The theme of the seminar was "Kashmir Freedom Struggle In The Current Global Political Scenario and Prospectus Of A Solution". But the participants, instead of focusing on the selected theme, reflected on the role of the separatist leaders, including the APHC (M) leaders like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. They were not really happy with the kind of the role the separatist leadership had played so far. As a matter of fact, some of the participants tore into the separatist leadership saying it has failed the people of Kashmir.
It would be only desirable to quote here some of the statements the participants reportedly made in the seminar. Such an exercise would help put things in perspective and show what the activists and part of the movement in Kashmir think about the separatist leadership and its role and impact. One participant suggested that the separatist leaders needed to be "held accountable for whatever they say". He was hinting at the statement on Mirwaiz that "international mediation is not needed". He was none other than the GN Shaheen, advocate and secretary Bar Association. Another participant reportedly said: "I feel that there is no unanimity in our society, which is divided on religious, sectarian and regional lines. But we need to destroy these walls and appeal the people with conscience to work in this direction". He was none other than Senior High Court lawyer and former KBA president, advocate Zafar Shah. He also underlined the "need of unity and being truthful". Another participant, who hails from Jammu and is non-Muslim, said: "We cannot ignore the global perspective and the context of India and Pakistan in Kashmir solution. But, unfortunately, the leadership is divided and disgruntled, which needs to adopt a unified approach…We should welcome Indo-Pak dialogue as its 'success' is in the interest of 'freedom struggle' in Kashmir".
Yet another participant reportedly said: "The leadership is fractured and devoid of any clear strategy. If tomorrow Pakistan is going to put the Kashmir on back burner, I want to ask in that scenario what strategy does the leadership have?" He was none other than a columnist, ZG Mohammad. Senior advocate and member of KBA executive body Manzoor Dar reportedly said almost the same thing. He said, "there is no cohesive attempt on the part of Hurriyat leadership to arrive at a solution as far as Kashmir is concerned. They need (to) shun their personal egos".
However, it was former KBA president Nazir A Ronga who was more critical of the Hurriyat leadership than any other participant. It was he who reportedly "castigated" the role of leadership and dismissed offices set up by separatist leaders at Rajbagh as "shops selling blood of Kashmiri youth". He did not stop there. He went on to say that "(Kashmiri) youth need to be aware of exploiters". Advocate Noor-ul-Amin, another participant, was no less critical. He said "speaking about Hurriyat unity is waste of time, as…they (Hurriyat) leaders are happy in their 'own separate and divided orbits' and frameworks." Significantly, Kashmir university professor Hameeda Nayeem, herself a "freedom fighter" and wife of Hurriyat leader Nayeem Khan, also addressed the seminar as a broken-hearted leader. She reportedly said: "We should not feel shy of the criticism of the leadership. All of us are burning. The criticism is coming from within, from the people who have suffered. We should accept it…Kashmir leadership has failed miserably in taking holistic view of Kashmir dispute".
These were some of the statements some of Kashmiri participants in the seminar reportedly made. These were not mere statements; they were candid reflections on the Hurriyat leadership and their credentials. The policy-planners in New Delhi would do well to take cognisance of what transpired in the seminar and revise their Kashmir policy. It would be only desirable if they focus their attention on the nationalist constituency in the state and consolidate it so that it is able to controvert the pernicious influence of those in Kashmir who in the words of Ronga are "selling blood of Kashmiri youth" for purely worldly gains. |
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