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| We are fighting for Pakistan, says Salah-ud-Din | | Thriving On Kashmiris' Blood | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 10: The POJK-based so-called supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), who also heads United Jihad Council (UJC), has been honest in admitting that he is not fighting for the Kashmir's independence and that his objective is to ensure the merger of Kashmir with the Muslim and theocratic Pakistan. He wants India to vacate Kashmir like USSR vacated Afghanistan. The nature of his commitment to Pakistan could be determined from what he said on June 8. He said: "We are fighting Pakistan's war in Kashmir and if it withdraws its support, the war would be fought inside Pakistan". He said so in an interview to Arab News. He made this statement while referring to "a reduction of tensions in Jammu and Kashmir following several rounds of talks between India and Pakistan". He also said that he was feeling "desperate and agitated with the new approach adopted by Pakistan in the peace process with India", saying "Pakistan is doing all this without keeping its own interest as prime due to foreign and western pressures without analyzing its disastrous consequences".
What he said on Friday cleared all the cobwebs of confusion and established that he is religiously committed to Pakistan. It is for the people of Kashmir, especially his co-religionists or the members of a particular religious sect, to react this way or that way to what he said. It is for them to say that whether or not they share the views of the Hizbul chief. However, one needs to appreciate the fact that his stand is clear. It is different that he is seeking to accomplish the unachievable.
Compare the stand of the Hizbul chief with the stands of the Srinagar-based separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and see for yourself the difference between them. Commentators say day in and day out that Geelani is pro-Pakistan. Yes, he is pro-Pakistan. He has in the past on several occasions, like Salah-ud-Din, taken on and criticized Pakistan saying its policy towards Kashmir was not what it should have been, but he, unlike the Hizb chief, has never used the language Salah-ud-Din used the other day. Geelani has, on other hand, consistently talked about right to self-determination as envisaged in the 1949 UN resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, notwithstanding the fact that the said resolution could not be implemented because Pakistan, instead of fulfilling the conditions laid down by the UN resolution, has violated the same by ceding a part of the Jammu and Kashmir territories to China and merging parts of the state with Islamabad. Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Liberation Party (JKDLP) chairman Hashim Qureshi was right when he had on June 7 accused the Hurriyat leadership of betraying the Kashmiris by not telling them that the UN resolutions do not provide for third option -- independence - and that the UN resolutions only provide for an option between India and Pakistan.
The approach of the Mirwaiz has been no different, notwithstanding the fact that he does try to represent the Pakistani interest in Kashmir for personal gains. The fact of the matter is that the Mirwaiz is neither here nor there and that he, like Geelani and other Srinagar-based separatists, has been only exploiting the name of Islam for some worldly gains. Hashim Qureshi had also reflected on this point and repeatedly taunted him, Geelani and others of their ilk.
The truth, in short, is that the likes of Geelani and Mirwaiz, unlike Salah-ud-Din, are dishonest. That's the reason that an overwhelming majority of Kashmiri Muslims does not follow them. In fact, it has come to believe that they are no more than self-seekers who are surviving and thriving on the Kashmiris' blood. It is indeed disturbing that New Delhi has not done anything to educate the public opinion in Kashmir and that it has been putting all eggs in the basket of those whose own credentials are highly doubtful. This is the way the world ends , not with bang but with a whimper.
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