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| Quitting J&K? | | Five disturbing developments -- I | | Neha
Jammu, May 1: Five disturbing developments took place between April 26 and April 30 all indicating that moves are afoot to jeopardize the Indian interests in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of so-called peace with Pakistan and Kashmir. What exactly happened during these six days?
On April 26, the Union Cabinet decided to ease travel between India and Pakistan for certain categories of people. The provision will also apply to "business persons whose credentials are certified by the chambers on the both sides". From India, it will be the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and from Pakistan, it will be the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI). The decision came ahead of the proposed meeting between the Indian Home Secretary and his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad in the last week of May. The agreement could be signed at that meeting if Pakistan Cabinet also approves it. India decided to ease visa regulations during the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Delhi on April 8.
That the FICCI would certify credentials of Pakistanis before they are allowed to enter India and that the unilateral decision of the Government of India is subjected to ratification by the Government of Pakistan explain many things and once again establish that the Congress-dominated UPA Government is determined to pursue the policy of unilateralism and give concession after concession to Pakistan without taking into consideration the dangerous ramifications and long-term implications of what it has been doing since the Sharm-el-Sheikh blunder.
On April 27, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed efforts by India and Pakistan to improve their relations and pressed for a resolution of the "Kashmir issue, sans violence and violation of human rights". "I hope this issue is addressed peacefully without violence and respecting wills of the people there" in Kashmir, Ban, who was in New Delhi on a four-day visit, told reporters. His comments on Kashmir came the very day the pro-Pakistan Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani urged him to persuade India to resolve the Kashmir issue". "United Nations came into being for resolving disputes but it has so far not succeeded in resolving the long pending Kashmir issue. We appeal that the Secretary General should persuade India to give up its rigid stand and cooperate in finding a durable solution," Geelani had said in a statement.
That Ban would use the Indian soil to take on New Delhi on the issue of human rights and ask the Indian authorities to resolve the Kashmir issue taking into consideration the "will" of the people of Kashmir and improve ties with Pakistan, which has not done anything whatever to rein in the Pakistan-based anti-India terror groups, speaks for itself. Suffice it to say that Ban not only interfered in the internal affairs of India but also advocated the Pakistani cause and the separatists like Geelani and Mirwaiz completely overlooking the facts that the state consists of three distinct regions, that the people of Jammu and Ladakh have nothing to do with the ongoing secessionist movement in Kashmir and that Pakistan has no locus standi in Jammu and Kashmir. It is obvious that the authorities in New Delhi failed to present an accurate picture of facts to the visiting biased UN General Secretary.
On April 30 alone, three highly disturbing developments took place. One, In its annual report on the issue of human rights, titled 'Human Rights and Democracy', the British Foreign Office in London, among other things, said: "We continue to encourage India and Pakistan to seek a lasting resolution that takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people". The report, released by Foreign Secretary William Hague, also said: "We call for an end to all external support for violence in Kashmir. We continue to urge the Government of Pakistan to take action against the presence and activities of militant groups in Pakistan-administered Kashmir". "Officials in the British High Commissions in New Delhi and Islamabad regularly discuss the situation with the Indian and Pakistani Governments and with our contacts in Indian and Pakistan-administered Kashmir," it was also given to understand.
Notwithstanding the clear and reasonable stand of London on the presence of terror groups in POJK, the UK Foreign Secretary, like the UN Secretary General, sided with those involved in the secessionist movement in Kashmir ignoring those in the state whose watchword all along has been full integration into India and empowerment under the Indian Constitution. How else would one interpret his statement that "we continue to encourage India and Pakistan to seek a lasting resolution that takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people"? Was it not a naked interference in the internal affairs of India? Of course, it was. What he said also established that London, like Washington D.C., is biased against the pro-India minority communities and that it, like the UN Secretary General, wishes the Government of India to give legitimacy to the Kashmiri Muslim identity politics ignoring the baneful impact it would have on the minorities in the state and the Indian polity and society. Will London allow Scotland or Ireland to secede? It will not and still London would want India to go by what the Kashmiri separatists say and quit not only Kashmir but Jammu and Ladakh as well because London, like many others, take Kashmir to mean the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and the separatist urges of the Kashmiri leaders to mean the aspirations of all in the state. (To be concluded) |
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