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| Unification Of J&K Does Yasin Malik really mean what he says? | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 15: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Mohammad Yasin Malik on May 13 described as "artificial" the Line of Control (LoC) between this and other side of Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that this artificial line will "fall like Berlin wall" leading to the unification of Jammu and Kashmir like the fall of German wall which led to the unification of Germany. "The day is not far when this artificial wall (ceasefire-line) will fall, as aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir are one and their hearts throb in unison," he reportedly said while addressing a public meeting at Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir's eastern district headquarter Bagh and added that "no power can stop Kashmiris from achieving their cherished goal for which they have made sacrifices on an unprecedented scale". Bagh was part of Poonch district of Jammu province before Pakistan illegally occupied many areas of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947-1948.
Yasin Malik crossed the line when he said that the "aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir are one". The aspirations of Jammu and Kashmir are not one. The Kashmiri leadership has been struggling for autonomy, self-rule, independence and for merger with Muslim Pakistan. It has been opposing the Indian presence in Kashmir. The Ladakhi leadership and people, who are ethnically and culturally different, have been struggling for their full merger with India. Similarly, all or nearly all the people of Jammu province consisting of 10 districts have been, like the people of Ladakh, striving hard since 1947 to throw in their lot with New Delhi for better, for worse. The people of Jammu province are also ethnically and culturally different.
Yasin Malik says the aspirations of Kashmiris are one. He is wrong. The Shia Muslims, barring a few, are not with Malik or others of his ilk. Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims, who are ethnically different, are not with him and others of his ilk. The Kashmiri Hindus who quit the Valley in early 1990 are not with him and others of his ilk, though they belong to the ethnic stock to which Yasin Malik and other Kashmiri secessionists and mercenaries belong. The Muslims of Gilgit-Baltistan are not with Kashmiri Sunni-sponsored, controlled and dominated secessionist and violent movement. For, their source of inspiration is Iran and not Pakistan or Srinagar. They, like the people of Ladakh, are totally different from the Kashmiri-speaking Sunni Muslims, who have been dominating the State's polity and economy since 1947. Yes, the people of POJK, who are not ethnically Kashmiri and are ethnically and culturally close to the people of Jammu province, could be with what the likes of Yasin Malik stand for, at least publicly, though there exists historical antagonism between them and the Kashmiri Muslims. The people of POJK want to avenge their humiliations they suffered at the hands of the Kashmiri leadership between 1930 and 1947. They want the unification of Jammu and Kashmir to show the Kashmiri leadership their rightful place.
Remember, NC leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and his associates had never trusted the Muslims of POJK and it was he who motivated Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948 to enforce ceasefire when the Indian Army was about to evict the Pakistani invaders from these areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The Sheikh had done so knowing it full well that the unification of this and other part of the State would reduce the Kashmiri-speaking Sunni Muslims to a minority and create a situation under which the political power would become the sole preserve of non-Kashmiris, including the people of Jammu, POJK and Ladakh. If one really wishes to know the history of ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir, one needs to go through Prem Shankar Jha's Rival versions in history.
To write this is not to suggest that the Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis are in majority in the State. They are not in majority. Their population is not more than 28 to 30 per cent in the State. They are ruling the State because they have manipulated everything in Delhi in their own favour, as also because they control and run almost all the Kashmir-based separatist and "mainstream" political organizations. New Delhi is at their back and call. Yasin Malik is fully aware of the differences between the Kashmiri-speaking Sunnis and Muslims of POJK and yet he talks about the unification of the State. But he is not committed to what he has been saying because he knows that what he has been saying is not going to happen. Pakistan will never vacate the aggression and allow the people of POJK to shape and mould their own political future themselves. Nor would New Delhi under the kind of leadership that we have in the country ever ask Islamabad to quit the occupied areas. Yasin Malik is simply beating about the bush and making statement just for the sake of publicity. |
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