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| Conference Of Enemies, Disparate Elements | | Tottering APHC | | NEHA
JAMMU, May 22: Separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who heads the ragtag All-Party Hurriyat Conference -Mirwaiz (APHC-M) or conference of enemies and disparate elements only the other day once again reiterated his old stand on Jammu and Kashmir while addressing a gathering of people in Baramulla district in connection with the "martyrs week" to mark the 22nd death anniversary of his father Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq. "There can be possibility of a difference in opinion within our conglomerate but nobody differs when it comes to achieve the common goal - right to self determination for the Kashmiris. It was our prime preference to collectively fight and protect the cause for which Kashmiris have rendered innumerable sacrifices…The struggle of people was not directed against any nation, people or religion. Kashmiris are fighting for right to self determination to determine their fate…The prime reason to observe the martyrs' week is to remember the sacrifices rendered by Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq and others, who sacrificed their today for better tomorrow of Kashmir. We are also observing martyrs week to let know world that there would be no compromises with the blood of martyrs…Packages and development won't solve the vexed Kashmir issue," he, among other things, said.
He did not say anything new. He only sung the same old monotonous song: We are fighting for right to self-determination and not for economic and employment packages. However, what attracted the attention more was his reference to his slain father. He termed his father "Shaheed". Paradoxically, those who killed him and Abdul Gani Lone are also eulogized in Kashmir as "martyrs".
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's father was shot dead in broad day light on May 21, 1990 by Kashmiri extremists because he had in the past hobnobbed with certain national political parties like Janata Party and had expressed faith in the Indian political system. His father was also a bitter critic of Sheikh Abdullah and other National Conference leaders. In fact, the followers of the Mirwaiz and other had fought several pitched battles before and after 1947 and those clashes were known as Sher-Bakra clashes.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's senior colleague and former Hurriyat Conference chairman Abdul Ghani Bhat had last year publicly stated that Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone had been shot dead not by the Indian Army and paramilitary forces or by the state police but by "our own men" and had only very recently dismissed as irrelevant the UN resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, a stand that has created a storm in the Hurriyat camp with a number of Hurriyat leaders castigating Bhat for his views on the UN resolutions and demanding action against him. Those who are demanding expulsion of Bhat from the tottering APHC (G) also include Shabbir Ahmad Shah and Nayeem Khan, whom the supporters and followers of Umar Farooq abused and manhandled on May 21. The supporters of Shah and Khan, who had to leave the venue of seminar on "contribution" of Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, also retaliated and fought with the followers of Mirwaiz, thus clearly indicating that the APHC (G) is on the verge of disintegration.
It is a different story that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has till date thought it proper not to take on those who killed his father. The reasons are not difficult to understand. One of the reasons, of course, is that he doesn't have the required courage to take on and expose the killers of his father. The other most notable reason is that his single-point agenda is to advance the Pakistani cause in Kashmir and remain in limelight by indulging in rabble-rousing and preaching falsehood. He has been airing views which a vast majority of people even in Kashmir doesn't appreciate. Significantly, his association with the likes of Bhat and other extremists and vice-versa is nothing but a marriage of convenience.
Remember, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has no say whatsoever in Jammu province and Ladakh region which constituted more than 88 per cent of the state's land area and house almost half of the state's population, which is, barring a handful of disgruntled elements here and there, pro-India and bitterly opposed to the idea of Jammu and Kashmir getting more autonomy/self-rule or becoming independent or becoming part of Pakistan. Mirwaiz and his colleagues, who have been fighting with each other and pulling each other's legs, are not only unpopular in Jammu and Ladakh, but they are also very unpopular in Kashmir. One may or one may not agree, but it is a fact. Mirwaiz is heading a conglomeration of disparate groups, all interested in promoting their own personal agendas and grinding their respective axes at the cost of the people of Kashmir.
It would not be out of place to mention here that as far as Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is concerned his area of activities and influence is limited to a few pockets in the Srinagar's downtown area, especially Jamia Masjid area. As for Bilal Lone and Shabir Shah, they too have very limited areas of influence. And, as for Abdul Ghani Bhat, his area of influence is confined to a couple of pockets in Sopore, which is also the area of influence of another Kashmiri extremist and pro-Pakistan Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Geelani and Mirwaiz do not see eye to eye with each other like the same way the Mirwaiz's own colleagues do not see eye to eye with each other.
The truth is that Kashmiri separatists hate each other and fight for personal profit. They are not "freedom fighters"; they are self-seekers. That's the reason they are mortally afraid of contesting elections. It is indeed disturbing that there are elements in New Delhi who term these self-seekers as "stakeholders".
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