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| Better forget interlocutors' report like a bad dream | | | Early Times Report
Jammu,May 26: While referring to the interlocutors' report voices are heard saying "it is a sellout to the separatists." The Kashmiri separatists, hardliners as well as the moderates, are dissatisfied with the report and its recommendations on the plea that "these cannot settle the Kashmir issue."
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, who is otherwise known for reacting to even a small incident or event like a lightning, has preferred to be patient. He wants to study the report between the lines lest he should comment in such a way as should displease the Congress led Government, which had assigned to the three interlocutors the task of framing a report that could address the internal and the external dimensions of the Kashmir issue, nor the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram who has been a vocal supporter of Omar in the Union Cabinet.
The PDP spokesman has seen reflection of the party's self-rule in the report of the interlocutors, which is unacceptable to the party's opponents in the National Conference. As far as the National Conference is concerned the comment from its one of the MPs, Dr Mehboob Beg, seems to be more plausible than the reaction from others.
Beg has rightly found some contradictions in the report. He has said that on one hand the report has recommended review of all the central laws that had been extended to Jammu and Kashmir after 1953 and on the other it has said that the arms of the clock cannot be reversed.
This is exactly what late D.D. Thakur had written as a preface to the report on autonomy the committee, headed by him, had framed in 1999.
The PCC chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, is another political leader who is right when he said that there is nothing new in the report. He has stated that "this report is not the last word for people or for the Government."
The separatists, including Molvi Umar Farooq and Mohd. Yasin Mailk, have rejected the report on the plea that it is aimed at confidence building measures which were not going to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Yet another surprise when the interlocutors had failed to meet the separatists, during their prolonged interaction with a cross section of people and political leaders, they had stated that the views of the separatists would be included in the report. If it is so what is the need for Dileep Padgaonkar, who headed the three-member team of interlocuters, to say that " we will be more than willing to approach separatists to engage with them;;;;;; let then give us their feedback?"
Those who say that the report is just a "a storm in a tea cup" are not totally wrong. One need not worry about the report and the recommendations therein, whether one is on the other side of the fence or in the mainstream politics.
The reason being that during the last about 60 years there have been agreements, accords, reports, recommendations but all of them have remained in the cold store. These agreements include those that had been hammered out betweeen India and Pakistan.
The stage for these experiments was set in 1952 for the purpose of taming the then Prime Minister of the State, Sheikh Abdullah. The result was the framing of the Delhi agreement of 1952. This agreement has remained under the carpet as its main features have not been implemented. This was followed by the 1965-66 Tashkent agreement between India and Pakistan. Again the spirit of this agreement has been violated by Pakistan from time to time.
The same fate awaited the Simla agreement of 1972, reached between India and Pakistan. And, rightly or wrongly, the main provisions of the Sheikh-Indira Accord of 1975 have not been implemented.
The double Farooq Accord, an agreement of friendship between Dr Farooq Abdullah and Molvi Mohd. Farooq of 1983 proved abortive to be followed by Rajiv-Farooq Accord of 1986.
What about the exercise K.C. Pant, N.N. Vohra and Ram Jethmalani carried out during the last over 12 years? These exercises vanished like dew with the advent of the dawn. What about the fate the Autonomy and Regional Autonomy reports have met? Everybody knows that these reports have not been brought out of the cold store.
What about the reports of the five working Groups, that were constituted by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh? If not anything else the recommendations of the four Groups are yet to be implemented.
It seems all the accords, agreements and commitments made either between India and Pakistan or between Delhi and Kashmiri leaders failed to address the internal and external dimensions of the Kashmir issue.
Hence one should treat interlocutors' report and their recommendations as part of the six-decade long procedure and programme of carrying out experiments of various sorts. One need not take the report either to one's heart or anything that deserves serious considerations. Time is not far off when people and the Government may forget the report like a bad dream. |
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