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| Development is the mandate of ruling coalition in J&K | | | Karan Bandesha | 4/28/2012 10:53:19 PM |
| Omar Abdullah seems to have willed him self into believing that the removal of the security forces would serve as a panacea for all ills that plague Jammu and Kashmir . There can be no other reason for him parroting his demand for removal of the armed Forces special Powers Act at any and every forum that he gets to address.
He speaks about this to the media, twitters on the subject incessantly, talks about it in one to one meeting with central leaders, raises the issue in important conferences like the recently held Chief Ministers conference in New Delhi.
In fact, he misses no opportunity to put forth this demand of his and in the process avoids talking of all other problems that plague the state. It does not seem to matter to him that nobody is very ready to buy his argument because the reality on ground goes against his contention.
The reality on ground is, sadly, in contravention to what Omar would like the people to believe. The reality is that the Pakistan army and ISI are inextricably linked with the activities of the Taliban and other fundamentalist groups that are operating with impunity from Pakistani soil. The Taliban, in the meanwhile, has sympathisers within the radical and terrorist organisations in Pakistan, the chief amongst these being the Lashkar-e-Toiba whose leader, Hafiz Saeed, who now has a bounty of $ 10 million on his head declared by the American Government. Hafiz Saeed's main focus is on Kashmir followed by a pan Indian approach towards proliferation of terror.
With the NATO forces set to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014 and ready to hand over power jointly to Karzai and the "good" Taliban, it does not require an Einstein to figure out the imminent chaos that Afghanistan is likely to dissolve into. The involvement of the Taliban in the government that takes over from the NATO forces is an eventuality that suits the interests of Pakistan, for that would automatically reduce the influence that India is likely to wield in Afghanistan should Hamid Karzai remain the sole power to reckon with. That, in fact, is the prime reason for Pakistan offering tacit and at times overt support to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The s most recent example is the strikes in Kabul against NATO forces. Once the NATO forces are no longer the focus of reprisal for the Afghan Taliban, the negative energies of this Frankenstein's monster, created by Pakistan, will have to be redirected in another direction so as to ensure that it does not self-destruct. In the situation, what better a target than Kashmir?
Evidence of involvement of Afghan Taliban in Kashmir already exists. The possibility of its renewal gains strength from the visible proximity of groups already involved in the spread of terror against India, including the dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba. Hafiz Saeed, despite his obvious involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, resides as a free man in Pakistan and has even gone so far as to cock a finger at the mighty United States of America.
Moreover, the chief mediator between the Taliban and the NATO forces, who is likely to play a vital role in the region after the withdrawal of the NATO forces, is the Egyptian born and Doha based Yusuf al Qawadri who has, earlier, publicly supported Jihad in Kashmir. The interests of Kashmir and India have never been a concern for the United States, so why would this facet of Qawadri's personality deter the country from negotiating and perhaps even allying with him, so long as its own ends are fulfilled? What more proof does anyone need of the likely involvement of the Taliban in Kashmir in the near future? Kayani is simply buying time to put in place his revised policy for Kashmir and talk of demilitarisation is nothing more than media hype.
So what if the Afghan Taliban is a force that even the highly efficient NATO forces have miserably failed to subdue? No doubt, the J&K police force is blessed with super powers which will provide to it the capability to not only police the state but also ensure that there is no terrorist infiltration from across the border.
So what if the J&K police has largely been a passive force for the last almost two decades?
Doubtless, the Chief Minister has a magic potion that will propel them into superlative action at top speed. Is it not said that fools rush in where angels fear to tread? This being the situation one can only pray for the fate of Kashmir and Kashmiris and ask the Almighty to deliver the land from the hands of such enlightened leaders.
India cannot allow itself to be swayed by opportunist utterances and machinations of the Pakistani establishment. When General Kayani sagaciously opined that the Siachen Glacier should be de-militarised, Senator Mc Cain of the United states exposed the emptiness of the statement by saying that, despite the Generals sudden change of heart, the fact remains that the Pakistan Army's best troops and best equipment continue to be deployed against India on the Indo-Pakistan border and not against the Taliban on the Afghanistan border, so much for political gimmickry.
The ruling coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir won the elections on the mandate of good governance. Good governance requires peace as a pre-requisite and peace can be ensured only by the presence of the Indian Army.
Therefore, this government more than anybody else should be rooting for a status quo in the security set up so that it can pursue its agenda for development unhindered. This constant demand for a drastic change in the security paradigm sometimes comes across as a feint to draw public attention away for the mandated issue of development. The people of Kashmir deserve first peace and then development; any act designed to derail one or both the core issues would be quite unfortunate. |
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