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| Make Jammu Equal Partner In Dialogue Process | | Delhi Conference -- II | |
NEHA
JAMMU, Apr 2: It was quite clear from what National Minority commission chairman Wajahat Habibullah; Former BSF DG E N Rammohan; CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat; Engineer Rashid, MLA from Kashmir; former Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University of Science and Technology, Kashmir, Siddiq Wahid; Ejaz Haider, Executive Director, Jinnah Institute; Pervez Hoodbhoy, professor of Nuclear and High Energy Physics; and Pakistan Peoples Party leader and lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan said in the two-day conference on "India-Pakistan Civil Society Review of Strategic Relations" that they had everything to do with Kashmir and Pakistan and that they had no place whatsoever in their scheme of things for the people of Jammu province and Ladakh. They not only spoke for and on behalf of Pakistan and Kashmiri secessionists but also put forth highly outrageous suggestions all aimed at benefiting Pakistan at the cost of India and meeting the separatist urges of Kashmiri leadership.
Some of their recommendations were: (1) "make the people of Kashmir (read Muslims) equal stakeholders in the peace process and part of the dialogue process"; (2) "demilitarize both sides of Kashmir (read Jammu and Kashmir), including Gilgit and Baltistan"; (3) "the civil societies of India and Pakistan should set up study groups to comprehensively study the problem of sharing of water in Indus Basin, identifying potential sources of conflict and possible areas of conflict"; (4) "two nations (India and Pakistan should) work for a holistic and integrated management of water between them"; (5) "development of a regional framework for sharing of water in the entire SAARC region"; (6) "a no-war pact should be signed by India and Pakistan"; (7) "India and Pakistan should vigorously implement all military CBMs that they have mutually agreed upon" and "these should also be extended to other areas as well".
Even a naïve would agree that these recommendations were both Pakistan and Kashmir-centric and harmful not only for India as a whole but also for the people of Jammu province and Ladakh. The fact that the participants in the conference rigorously excluded any reference to the needs, compulsions and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Ladakh from their so-called recommendations was an indication that they were not only biased but they were also committed to a solution that enables Pakistan to promote its cause in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir as well as enables Islamabad to get as much water from the state as it needs.
But more than that, these so-called recommendations once again established that these participants, like other track II actors, consider Kashmir as Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh and believe that meeting the "aspirations" of Kashmiri leaders and Islamabad would be the same as meeting the aspirations and urges of the people of Jammu and Ladakh. Such an approach has not worked in the past. Nor would such an approach click in future because it is not holistic.
What, then, is the way out? The way out is that the people of Jammu province and Ladakh must be made equal partners in the dialogue process as they are the real victims. Kashmir is not a victim; Kashmir has been ruling the state and exploiting to the hilt Jammu province and trans-Himalayan Ladakh. The problem in Kashmir is essentially communal, which needs to be tackled as such. The real problem is in Jammu and Ladakh and the problem is both human and political. Those who think that they can impose their will on Jammu and Ladakh are living in a world of the past. The sooner they recognize the ground situation in the state the better it would be for all. No one can take Jammu and Ladakh for granted. (Concluded) |
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